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CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 
The Universal Prosperity Partnership 

EDUCATIONAL LIBRARY 


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PRINCIPLES 

AND 

PRACTICE 

OF 

CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 

By 

Edward Oliver Tilburne, Ph. D. 

Author of 

“Christian Psychology the Universal Prosperity Partnership’* 
“The Law of True Prosperity,” Etc . 

“Whatsoever a Man Soweth’* 


Published by 

The Universal Prosperity Partnership 
Los Angeles, California 

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Edward^Oliver Tilburne, Ph. D. 


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Index 


PART I 

Principles of Christian Psychology 


CHAPTER PAGE 

Preface . 

I Basic Principles of Christian Psy¬ 
chology . 15 

II The Principle Elaborated . 23 

III The Power Within. 28 

IV The Glory Within. 40 

V The Reign of Law.. 51 

PART II 


Practice of Christian Psychology 

ESSAY 

I The Material Mind vs. The Spiritual 


Mind . 69 

II The Drawing Power of Mind. 81 

III The Art of Forgetting. 93 

IV The God in Yourself. .104 

V The Doctor Within.117 

VI The Law of Success. 127 

VII Twenty-five Rules for Demonstrat¬ 
ing Success .139 

















Preface 

OUTLINING THE PRINCIPLE OF CHRISTIAN 
PSYCHOLOGY. 

C OMPARATIVELY recent years have placed 
Psychology within the domain of the exact sci¬ 
ences. That it was not accomplished sooner 
was due to the fact that no successful attempt 
had been made to formulate a working hypothesis 
sufficiently comprehensive to embrace all Psychic 
Phenomena, but today, owing to the research 
and labors of the ablest scientists of ancient 
and modern times, who have either, through 
the organization of various Societies for Psy¬ 
chical Research, or by their lone efforts, made 
purely scientific and painstaking investigation of Psy¬ 
chical Phenomena in all parts of the civilized world, 
an array of facts of the most transcendent interest and 
importance have been gathered to prove and establish 
the law upon which the science is based; a law as old 
as Creation, and as true as Gospel. In fact, a law 
that is gospel. The good news of Man’s true relation 
to God, Nature and Himself. 

Psychology is the science of the soul, or mind, and 
is as exact as any other science; more so, for all science 
is the result or discovery of law, and the discoverer is 
the Mind of Man. 

Christian Psychology ventures a step farther. It 
dares to reconcile Science and Religion, and no work 
is received with more suspicion, almost derision, than 


an attempt of this character. Science is tired of recon¬ 
ciliations between two things which never should have 
been contrasted. Religion is offended by the patron¬ 
age of an ally which it professes not to need; and the 
critics have rightly discovered that, in most cases 
where science is either pitted against religion or fused 
with it, there is some fatal misconception to begin with 
as to the scope and province of either. 

And Christian Psychology may suffer also because 
of misconception; but when we declare that “Chris¬ 
tian” means “Christ in me,” and that “Christ in us” 
means the salvation of the soul, it may be accepted that 
Psychology, the Science of the Soul, was the science 
applied by Christ in all his teachings and wonderful 
works; if this can be proven, then Christian Psy¬ 
chology is shown as the Science of Christ in the heal¬ 
ing and saving of the soul and body, and has its place 
in the domain of healing and salvation, even as Psy¬ 
chology is placed in the domain of the exact Sciences. 

Perhaps the theologian has not fully explained 
the meaning of “the salvation of the soul.” It may be 
the God inspired privilege of Christian Psychology 
to make this seeming mystery clear, and show the 
means to its unfailing accomplishment. It may be 
proven that Science and Religion are not two, but 
one; that both, in Truth, are based upon Law, and 
with the discovery of the law governing causes we 
shall find the effect and remedy it. 

Psychology is the Science of the Soul. Soul is an 
attribute, a part, of Man only. Therefore Psychology 
is the Science of Man; Christian Psychology is the 
Science of the Christ Man. 

The science of man is knowledge of himself. To 
know himself he should learn what he is and what he 
is capable of being. 

Man is a work of God; an exact image of Deity. 
Man is of God; he is a part of the Divine Mind. He 


was not a man until he was a part of God. Before he 
was a man he was in God and was not a part. There¬ 
fore he was in God, the mind of God; from out of 
Mind, God created his image and named it Man. 
Christ was—IS—the perfect man. The birth of Christ 
was after the Law of Spirit; so was the creation of 
Man. Christ was the mind of God made flesh. So 
was—IS—man. For this cause, He is not ashamed to 
call Man brother, “being made like unto His breth¬ 
ren.” God is the Father of all. 

Man looking upon externals, will see as externals 
permit. His mind is full of material thoughts. The 
grossness of what is called “animal nature” is fos¬ 
tered and cherished. He is lost to spiritual things. 
His mind does not perceive. 

Man is a religious animal we are told. He must 
worship something, and so, lost to spiritual perception, 
he worships material things. He fashions his own 
idols. Even in his so-called Christian worship he may 
worship idols, for not knowing God in Truth, he wor¬ 
ships his CONCEPTION of God; a worship as his 
views of God require. This accounts for most of the 
religious confusion—the babel of chaos, in the church 
world today. If all knew the Christ in truth, would 
not all worship alike ? 

The Science of Man is to know himself. “Man, 
know thyself” is the axiom of the ages. To know him¬ 
self he must see himself; he must see the Christ life 
IN himself, and this alone will save him from his lost 
condition of ignorance in spiritual perception, and 
bring him face to face with God, his Father, and 
with his own bemg and capabilites. 

Christian Psychology does this. While not hesi¬ 
tating to draw from the fountains of knowledge of 
those investigators in Truth who have gone before, yet 


its text book is that collection of sacred writings en¬ 
titled “The Holy Bible.” Careful reading and un¬ 
prejudiced investigation will prove whether our work 
is of God or of man. 

We have termed Christian Psychology “The Uni¬ 
versal Prosperity Partnership.” It is all of that. 

(1) Because it is universal in its need and ap¬ 
plication. 

(2) Because its scientific teachings bring true 
prosperity, health of body and mind, wealth in materi¬ 
al things, and the life more abundant. 

(3) It is a partnership because “we are laborers 
together with God” and all who unite with us in our 
labors for good are partners with us. 

Concluding, Christian Psychology applied means: 

(1) Peace, Poise, Personality. 

(2) Prayer, Purpose, Power. 

(3) Perfect Health, Perennial Youth. 

(4) Permanence, Plenty. 


PROSPERITY 

through 

KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND OF YOURSELF. 


God 


A SUPREME Power and Wisdom governs the 
Universe. 

The Universe was created by this Power, 
and in its co-ordination and co-operation all 
the powers in the Universe prove the One Power that 
created. And as the Universe is harmonious in its 
order, there is made manifest that the Power that cre¬ 
ated also governs. 

This Power and Wisdom we call God. 


Harmony and System declare MIND. A supreme 
Mind therefore governs. The Supreme Mind is 
measureless and pervades endless space. The Su¬ 
preme Wisdom is in everything that exists from the 
atom to the planet. The Supreme Mind is declared in 
Law. 

This Law we call God. 


The Supreme Power, Wisdom, Mind, Law, is more 
than IN everything. 

The Supreme Mind IS everything. 

The Supreme Mind is every atom of the mountain, 
the sea, the earth, and the products of the earth. 

The Supreme Mind is every man, every woman. 

The Supreme Mind provides for every living 
creature after Law. 

This Provider we call God. 

The Supreme Wisdom cannot be understood by 
man, but man may receive the thoughts of the Su¬ 
preme Mind and be like the Supreme Mind. 



The Supreme MIND is man, for Mind is declared 
by Man. 

The Supreme Power gives us Power to be like 
Him. As He is, so are we. 

Knowledge of this means ever perfecting health, 
ever increasing abundance, ever developing power to 
enjoy life, and all that life gives. It means a transition 
into a higher state of being and the development of 
powers we do not now realize as belonging to us. 

These mean our greatest good. 

This Good we call God. 


The All Inclusiveness 
of Christian Psychology 

(1) All the language course needed is to be able 
to read the Word of God. 

(2) All the literary course needed is to be able 
to interpret the Holy Bible. 

(3) All the business or mathematical course 
needed is to be able to solve one problem: “ What shall 
it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and 
lose his own soul.” 

(4) All the Science course needed is to know 
The Science of the Soul—The Christ Science. 

(5) All the medical course needed is to be able 
to “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, 
cast out devils,” as Jesus did, and He says: “What 
1 do, ye shall do also; and greater than these shall ye 
do; because 1 go to the Father 

(6) All the law course needed is knowledge of 
the law governing the universe, including man. 

(7) All the theology needed is the theology as 
taught by Jesus, and to be able to preach the gospel 
as He preached it as recorded in the New Testament. 

If this is known, all is known. 

Christian Psychology opens the door to this 
knowledge. 


“He that knows not and knows that he knows not, is 
simple, teach him. 

He that knows not and knows not that he knows not, 
is a fool, avoid him. 

He that knows and knows not that he knows, is asleep, 
awaken him. 

But he that knows and knows that he knows, is a 
WISE MAN, follow him. 

A Persian Proverb. 


PART I. 


Principles of 
Christian Psychology 








I. 


BASIC PRINCIPLES OF 
CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


H APPINESS is universal desire. 

How to be happy; free from care, worry, dis¬ 
tress of mind or body, from anxiety concern¬ 
ing the present and future; to cast off the 
burdens of material things and live as free as the air, 
the growing things of earth, the birds and beasts and 
all that live and breathe—to live free; this is the de¬ 
sire of man, and the knowledge how to attain it is the 
greatest secret in the world. 

“Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall 
make you free” is the revelation of the secret. “If the 
Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” 
declares the way to freedom. “Know God through 
Jesus Christ whom He hath sent” is the instruction. 

To know God is to know the character, person¬ 
ality, essence, power of the Creator, the Source of all 
things; and to know Jesus Christ whom He hath sent 
to reveal the Truth to man, is to know yourself, made 
in the image and likeness of God, His Son even as 
Jesus was—IS—His Son, coequal with Jesus— “joint 
heirs with Christ.” 

This is the Truth you are to know in order to 
find happiness; and it is this Truth, believed and prac¬ 
ticed, that brings into being those conditions of health, 
wealth, joy, peace, and understanding that make up 
“the life more abundant” that Jesus came to give to 
the world. 

The abundance is here and now, even as it was 
when the Master come to open the eyes of the spirit- 


16 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


ually blind that they might see it. It is required only 
that you should open your spiritual eyes to see it and 
appropriate it—stretch out your hand and gather it, 
demand and receive it. It rests with you so to do. 
God has done, is doing His part; failure comes only 
through man, and the failure is due to man’s ignor¬ 
ance, to misconception of his rights, and power, or dis¬ 
belief in the principles that underlie the Truth, and 
which must be understood and obeyed, even as he that 
buildeth must build upon a foundation. The founda¬ 
tion is sure and safe if it be “upon a rock.” 

“The rock is Truth.” 

It is true, whether you believe it or not. You are 
made free by the Truth if you believe it, accept it, 
adapt it to your needs, and practice it. And the Truth 
iS:SQ plain that “the wayfaring man though a fool 
.need not err therein.” 

We begin with the Truth of God. This does not 
mean the generally accepted IDEA or concept of God 
as given by theologians; an autocratic, severe, rigid, 
arrogant Ruler, before whom we shall bow in fear and 
trembling, but a God whose name is Father, the giver 
of life, and the provider for our necessities; whose at¬ 
tributes are, in addition to Power: Intelligence, Sub¬ 
stance, Life, LOVE, PITY, SYMPATHY and FOR¬ 
GIVENESS. “As a Father pitieth his children, so 
does God pity those that fear Him,” or fear to ap¬ 
proach Him. 


God : may be approached without fear, even as you 
may approach yourself without fear, for God is IN 
you,'even as Love is IN you. “He that loveth not, 
knoweth not God, for God IS Love.” Do not fear to 
affirm that God is in you, for this is the message of 
the Christ to you. It requires but Faith and develop¬ 
ment ,'to* prove it, and when these are accomplished, 
you will know the Truth and be free. You are to be 
'pitied if you fear. 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 17 


FIRST, then, Know God. 

(1) God IS. 

Is what? LIFE. As life is omnipresent, or all 
present, always present, then God is always present. 
Life is established on scientific principles, all tending 
to one end,—life; therefore God, the Creator, is om¬ 
niscient, or all knowing. He knows all about life. 
Life is a manifestation or demonstration of Power. 
Therefore God is the Source of Intelligence in Life, 
is Omnipotent or all powerful—He is power in Life. 

Learn the Truth concerning God with the ac¬ 
ceptance of all that has gone before. 

God is, 

OMNIPRESENT, OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT. 

(2) God is MIND. 

The attributes of Personality in Omnipresence, 
Omniscience and Omnipotence, declare power to know, 
power to perform. These impute power to originate. 
Power to originate belongs only to the realm of Mind 
or thought. Mind proves presence, knowledge and 
power. God thought before He acted. God was pres¬ 
ent when He thought, He knew before He thought, 
and His Power was demonstrated because He thought. 
“The worlds were framed by the WORD of God.’ f 
Words express ideas. Ideas belong to the realm of 
Mind. Ideas are thoughts, or find their birth in 
thought—thoughts are things today. 

Therefore thought or Mind is, 

OMNIPRESENT, OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT. 

(3) GOD is LAW. 

The Universe is governed by law. It is the law 
of the Creator. There is a law that governs the solar, 
system, the earth and all that dwell therein. It is. 
law that creates life, sustains life, provides for life, 
and assures everlasting life. There is the law of light, 
and of love, of the physical body, and of the spiritual 


18 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


body; of health, wealth, happiness. Law governs all— 
God is Law. 

Note then Law is, 

OMNIPRESENT, OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT. 

(4) GOD IS GOOD. 

We have given the name God to the Supreme 
Wisdom, Power and Intelligence because we all agree 
that the Great First Cause can be only good. Ail 
that life holds in Truth is good. The term, God, is 
taken from the Anglo-Saxon root meaning “Good.” 
In the Hebrew language the word is “Elohim” as 
ascribed to the “Creator;” “Jehovah” as applied to 
the Provider and Ruler. Jesus taught that God is 
our Father, which includes all. 

We say “God” because good describes all. 

God is not only “ good,” h ut is The Good; so Good 
that He cannot be anything else but good. Therefore 
in all of being, mind, law, and all that life holds, we 
find only good. There is no evil. Evil is but a per¬ 
version of good, and a perversion is not real or true. 

Believe then that Good is, 

OMNIPRESENT, OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT. 

SECOND, Know Jesus, the Christ. 

(1) HE IS LIFE. 

He taught: “1 am the way, the Truth and the 
Life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me.” 
Jesus then shows the Way, the Truth and the Life 
through which man may know God: GOD IN HIM¬ 
SELF. 

Even as God was in Christ reconciling the world 
to Himself—establishing unity—even so in us today 
is the same ministry of reconciliation—unity with 
God. (See 2 Corinthians, 5:18-21.) 

All that God is in life, the Christ made mani¬ 
fest and taught man, concerning the Truth of life in 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 19 


man. All the science, knowledge, power and intelli¬ 
gence of God, Jesus declared, and all He declared is 
with us today. 

Therefore, Jesus the Christ is, 
OMNIPRESENT, OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT. 

(2) THE CHRIST IS MIND. 

He was in the beginning with God. 

He was God in the creation. 

He was the Word, made flesh, full of Grace and 
Truth. 

He is declared: “Christ, the Wisdom and Power 
of God.” 

In Christ, the wisdom and power of Mind IS 
today, 

OMNIPRESENT, OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT. 

(3) THE CHRIST IS LAW. 

All things were created by him (Eph. 3:9) : 

“Who is the image of the invisible God, the first 
born of every creature (or creation) ; For by him were 
all things created that are in heaven, and that are in 
earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones 
(law), or dominions (rule), or principalities (division 
of law or rule), or powers: all things were created by 
him, and FOR him: and he is BEFORE all things, 
and by him ALL things consist ” Col. 1:15-17. 

Creating, he established the law governing all; 
right government is righteous law. 

“Christ is the end of the law of righteousness to 
every one that believeth.” 

The Law of the Christ then is, 

OMNIPRESENT, OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT. 

(4) THE CHRIST IS GOOD. 

If God is good, then the Christ—God (or Good) 
made flesh—is Good. 


20 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


Upon one occasion men approached him, and ad¬ 
dressing him as Jesus, said, “Good Master.” He re¬ 
proved them with the words, “Why callest thou me 
good? There is none good but one, and that is God. 79 

Here then we must make the distinction between 
Jesus, the man, and Christ, God. We are prone to use 
the associated names of the man with the title of his 
being—Jesus Christ. Say, rather, Jesus (man) the 
Christ (the Anointed). Jesus was very man and very 
God. As man, subject to all the temptations of man, 
but as God, able to overcome them. Remember this. 

The Christ is good. 

His life, the good life. 

His mind the good (or God mind). His knowl¬ 
edge and power, knowledge of good and power to 
perform it. 

That same knowledge and power lives today. 

So find good today, 

OMNIPRESENT, OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT, 
and find in the Christ, God, establishing unity with 
man. 

THIRD: 

KNOW THYSELF. 

Who are you? In what manner does all of the 
foregoing apply to you? Listen: Moses spoke of 
man’s oneness with God as man being made in the 
image and likeness of God. Jesus spoke of man’s 
oneness with God as the Son being one with the 
Father— “1 and the Father are one. 77 Jesus is no 
longer in this world, but even as God IS in the world 
today, so IS the Christ in the world today, and the 
Christ in the world today is the Christ in Y r OU today. 
“Christ liveth in me 77 declared Paul, the Apostle, 
and further affirmed that “the life 1 now live in the 
flesh, 1 live by the faith of the only begotten Son of 
God 77 _ the life of Truth. 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 21 


“Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith:” 
he states again; “prove your own selves. Know ye not 
your own selves, how that Jesus (man) Christ (God) 
IS IN you, except ye be reprobates f” (2 Cor. 13:5). 
This links man with God, and proves that unless there 
be the reprobate mind, we know that Christ is in us. 
This is our hope of character and happiness. 

The Scribes who have given us the record of the 
life and works of Jesus the Christ inform and assure 
us, reiterating, asserting and emphasizing, that Jesus 
was the power of God; that all power was given unto 
him; that this power was given to his apostles (or 
messengers) and that they were to preach it. This 
power is in the world today in Man, through the cre¬ 
ative Word, which man alone can use, for Jesus and 
his disciples are no longer with us. 

If the power and wisdom of God is to be declared 
today, it must come through YOU. 

The secret of this power and wisdom is the secret 
of life, happiness, health, wealth, and all that life 
holds. 

So following the line of our syllogism, learn: 

(1) Man IS, in Christ. 

(2) Man is Mind, in Christ. 

(3) Man is Law, in Christ. 

(4) Man is Good, in Christ, and in Christ is, 

OMNIPRESENCE, OMNISCIENCE, OMNIP¬ 
OTENCE. 

“In him we LIVE, and move and have our BE¬ 
ING.” (Acts 17:28.) 

“Let this MIND be in you which was also in 
Christ Jesus : who being in the form of God, thought 
it not robbery to be EQUAL with God.” (Phil. 2: 
5, 6.) 

“. . . . Being not without law to God, but un¬ 
der the law to Christ.” (1 Cor. 9 :21.) 


22 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


“ ... To know the love of Christ, which pass- 
eth knowledge, that ye might he filled with ALL the 
FULLNESS of God (good).” (Eph. 3:9.) 

(< Till we all come in the unity of the faith and of 
knowledge of the Son of God, unto a PERFECT man, 
unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of 
Christ.” (Eph. 4:13.) 

The fullness of God is the fullness of Christ, and 
the fullness of man, thus filled, measures up to the 
measure of the stature of the Christ. 

“I and the Father are one. 9 * 


II 

THE PRINCIPLE ELABORATED 

A LL things are of God (good). 

God (good) is IN all things. 

“All things work together for good to those 
that love God” (good). 


GOD IS 


Spirit, Life, Love, Truth, Health, Wealth, Happiness, 
Joy, Substance, Intelligence. 


LAW 

GOD IS ALL IN ALL 

OMNIPRESENT, OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT. 


MAN IS 

The image of God, the likeness of God, the Son of 
God, the Thought of God, the Mind of God, the Word 
of God made flesh, the Administrator of the law of 
God. 

Man has life and all things that pertain to the 
fullness of life, by obedience to, and administration 
of the Law of Life in TRUTH. 

As God is, in spirit, so is man, in spirit. The 
spirit of God and the spirit of Man are one in all 
that make their nature. 





24 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


FATHER. 

Creator, 

Provider, 

Truth, 


GOD IS A TRINITY 

SON. HOLY SPIRIT. 

Way, Truth, 

Truth, Comforter, 

Life, Teacher. 


Unity in Trinity, Three in one, One in three. 
Agreeing in Truth. 

Three in each. Agreeing in all. 


MAN IS A TRINITY. 

BODY. SOUL. SPIRIT. 

Flesh, Mind, Love, 

Blood, Intelligence, Divinity, 

Nerves, Thought, Life. 

Unity in Trinity, Three in one, One in three. 
Agreeing in Life. 

Three in each. Agreeing in all. 

Note. Find the agreement by reading under 
each person in the Trinity its characteristics, and then 
read across the page to prove it. To illustrate : 

“Creator, Way, Truth.*’ “Flesh, Mind, Love, 
etc.” 


GOD IS SPIRIT. 

SPIRIT IS MIND. 

THE MIND OF GOD IS A TRINITY. 

The Mind of the Creator. The Mind of the Ruler. 
The Mind of the Father. 

These three are one. The ONE is the Spirit. 




PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 25 


MAN IS SPIRIT. 

SPIRIT IS MIND. 

THE MIND OF MAN IS A TRINITY. 

The creative Mind. The executive Mind. The 
Ruling Mind. 

These three are one. The ONE is the soul. 


Read and study the foregoing carefully, giving 
due thought, without haste, or interruption. The 
Truth will begin to quicken in your mind. 

“Like Father, like Son, .” 


MIND CONFORMS TO LAW. 

Psychologically the three spheres or departments 
of mind are designated: 

CONSCIOUS (or Objective) MIND, SUBCON¬ 
SCIOUS (or Subjective) MIND, SUPERCON¬ 
SCIOUS (or Divine) MIND. 

The first is ruled by the five physical senses, and 
functions through the brain, and the cerebro-spinal 
nervous system. 

The second is ruled by suggestion and functions 
through the Solar Plexus. 

The third is ruled by spiritual desire, the “still 
small voice” and functions through the affections, or 
emotions—the heart. 

The conscious mind is also termed “the mind of 
the flesh,” “the carnal (or animal) mind,” “the 
material mind,” etc. 

The subconscious mind is given in the Bible as 
the soul, lost by suggestion of evil, and weakness of 
will to do right. It is the subconscious mind with 
which we have most to do in cur search for the “abun¬ 
dant life.” 

The superconscious mind is the mind of the spirit, 
the Mind of Christ, the spirit that “QU1CKENETH” 
or makes alive. 




26 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY advances the 
Truth that if the physical senses perceive right or 
truth, the conscious mind suggests the Truth to the 
subconscious mind, and acting upon that suggestion, 
will invoke the aid of the euperconscious mind and 
bring all good things to pass. Here is the secret: 

By way of illustration: The physical senses, in 
their relation to the conscious mind, function through 
an established law which is elaborated as follows: 

Observation, perception, desire, suggestion, grati¬ 
fication of desire. 

We see the point where suggestion comes in. At 
this point, the subconscious mind begins to function; 
then follows resolution, determination, will, action, 
realization, all of which can be for good or otherwise, 
ACCORDING TO THE DESIRE. 

Now note: The connecting link between the 
conscious and subconscious mind is the brain and 
cerebro-spinal nervous system. The brain is divided 
into two parts; one part receives, through the nerves— 
the seat of the conscious mind—the other retains, re¬ 
members and ACTS through the suggestion of the 
conscious mind. It never takes the initiative and has 
no power of volition. This is proven in hypnosis. The 
eye, the ear, the other “senses” search for what they 
want, desire. It has been said “we see what we are 
looking for;” seeing it, the suggestion is made to the 
other part of the brain, the subconscious mind, which 
accepts it as being true and right, and acts upon the 
suggestion. There IS A STRONG APPEAL of the 
CARNAL NATURE TO THE MIND. Yielding to 
this appeal means ILL HEALTH, FAILURE, 
CRIME and MISERY. 

The connecting link between the subconscious 
mind (the soul) and the superconscious mind (or 
spirit) is Thought. When the way of the carnal—or 
animal—mind is suggested to the subconscious mind 
of one young in life, or later; if the spiritual is at all 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 27 


predominant, immediately arises a protest from the 
superconscious or spiritual: “Look out. That is 
dangerous. It is not wise, is not for your good.” But 
the conscious or carnal mind can overrule the protests 
of the spirit, and often does so. This is “quench¬ 
ing the spirit,” and we are warned not to “quench 
the spirit.” 

We are also advised, “Be not overcome of evil, 
hut overcome evil with good” 

Man, as a free moral agent, can choose to do as he 
pleases; and, doing as he pleases, he often pleases to 
follow the cravings of his desires, and so doing, 
“quenches the spirit” and loses his soul. 

It seems easier to do wrong than to do right, 
because the appeal of wrong gratifies the physical 
through sensation, which is always physical, calling 
the nerves into play. In other words, the conscious 
mind seeks for gratification of the physical being in 
appetite, lust, crime, to acquire the purely material, 
and secures the executive co-operation of the subcon¬ 
scious mind in carrying out its plans. 

But on the other hand, if the conscious mind will 
analyze the situation and suggest the right to the sub¬ 
conscious mind, it secures the co-operation of the 
superconscious mind and only good can follow. For 
here is unity in Trinity—Good, the mind of Christ. 

This is the law of Mind. Fill your mind with 
right thoughts—health thoughts, pure thoughts, and 
all that is for good—and “All things are yours, for 
ye are CHRIST’S and CHRIST is God’s.” 

“Seek ye first the Kingdom of God (good) and 
His righteousness, and all things shall he added unto 
you.” 

The greatest means of expression, or of conveying 
thought to the Subconscious Mind is the spoken word. 
It is the creative force of the universe. 


Ill 


THE POWER WITHIN 

Twelve Great Powers of the Conscious Mind. 
Twelve Fundamental Characteristics of the 
Subconscious Mind. 


W E have now advanced to a point where the 
functions and powers of the three depart¬ 
ments of mind call for elucidation, classi¬ 
fication and explanation. Concerning the 
latter we shall say little, for we accept it that the 
opening chapters have sufficed to establish a founda¬ 
tion explanatory and sufficient for us to build upon. 
We shall confine ourselves almost entirely to the con¬ 
sideration of the functions and powers of the con¬ 
scious, subconscious and superconscious minds, begin¬ 
ning with the conscious mind. In our further discus¬ 
sion keep these in mind. 

The conscious mind is the objective mind. 

The subconscious mind is all BELOW the con¬ 
scious or objective mind. It is subjective; does not 
perceive. All ABOVE the normal register of con¬ 
sciousness we term the superconscious mind. 

(1) Conscious, Objective. 

(2) Subconscious, Subjective. 

(3) Superconscious, Spiritual, Diety, God. 
These three are one mind working in different 
departments, if you will. 

The Conscious Mind. 



PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 29 


(1) The Conscious Mind is the immediate organ 
of perception and functions through the five physical 
senses, the brain and cerebro-spinal nervous system. 
It gains information. It governs time and space 
through observation and adaptation. It learns through 
objects—objective. 

(2) It is the suggester to the instincts, the de¬ 
sires, the emotions—objectively. 

(3) It reasons by all methods. It is the waking 
mind; the mind of the physical and material. Its 
powers of reason are inductive, analytical, deductive. 

(4) It is the re-educator of the subconscious 
mind; has power to change habits and to reform. 

(5) It is the mind of initiative. The discoverer. 
The originator. The starter. The propeller. 

(6) It is the latest product of evolution. The 
mind of man today is greater than the mind of man 
was even ten years ago. To consider the advance of 
civilization in science, art, invention and discovery 
since the beginning of time, or within the province of 
history, is to prove the mind of man as the latest 
and greatest product of evolution. Today it may be 
said without irreverence, “The world today is framed 
by the Word (mind) of man 

But, remember, it is the God in him that accomp¬ 
lishes it, the working out of law. 

(7) It can advance or retrograde; evolve or degen¬ 
erate. It cannot stand still. It has the power of life 
or death. It can eh her rob man of everlasting life, 
or assure him of separation from life. Marvelous 
power! 

(8) It completely rests in sleep; that is, being of 
the body, purely physical, it is subject to the laws of 
the physical. The subconscious acts while you sleep. 
Dreams are the acts of the subconscious mind. It has 
been said that dreams are repressed desires recalled 


30 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


by the subconscious mind, which never forgets. Of 
this, more later. 

(9) To do its most effective work in education 
or reform, it must be inspired by the superconscious 
mind. 

(10) The conscious mind governs the subcon¬ 
scious mind; educates it; commands it; rules it. But 
it reverences the superconscious. Self-respect and 
decency is the conscious mind reverencing or yielding 
to the claims of the superconscious. The use of the 
physical senses in worship of God is also a demon¬ 
stration of this. 

(11) It is the creator of words. The power of 
thought. The active principle in the beginning of 
things. 

(12) To demonstrate good, it finds good in all. 
Affirms good. The reverse is true when that which is 
not good is found and followed. 

To control and direct the conscious mind, the 
“I am” of creative thoughts, must be repeated daily, 
hourly, and the Truth of God found objectively in 
all things that are seen. The powers of the conscious 
mind are either dynamic or forceful; tense or re¬ 
pressed ; static or at rest without progressive force. 

It is for you to choose to what use you will put 
your great creative power. Use it for good. 

We now pass on to the consideration of the sub¬ 
conscious mind, reserving the superconscious mind for 
another chapter. 

The Subconscious Mind is the executive mind. It 
acts under orders, and does as it is told. It possesses 
no initiative or volition, but acts under nervous im¬ 
pulse through the power of suggestion. It is as equally 
capable of executing evil as good, not recognizing any 
master but the suggestion given by the conscious 
mind. 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 31 


There are Twelve Fundamental Characteristics 
of the Subconscious Mind. These are of tremendous 
importance in the working out of the Divine Plan, 
demonstrated by man. The knowledge of these char¬ 
acteristics and the demonstration of them for good, 
places man in a position to “work out his own salva¬ 
tion,” it may be with fear and trembling, for the Sub¬ 
conscious Mind is easily influenced; but when Faith 
in good, and desire for good rules it, it works out sal¬ 
vation absolutely and certainly, for (( perfect faith 
casteth out fear ” 

Note then, the twelve fundamental characteris¬ 
tics of the subconscious or executive mind. 

1. THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IS THE BUILD¬ 
ER AND REBUILDER OF THE BODY. 

It has charge of all the so-called involuntary 
functions of the body. It governs, therefore, respira¬ 
tion, digestion, assimilation, circulation, elimination, 
and all the habitual, automatic activities. 

The body changes daily. There is a complete 
change in some respects every twenty-eight days, cor¬ 
responding to the change in the Solar System, and in 
the working out of the Divine Plan in Nature. There 
is a complete change in all, every year. Physically, 
none of us are over one year old. The body for next 
year is not yet born. 

According to physiology, the characteristics of 
life are four in number: Assimilation, Waste, Re¬ 
production, and Spontaneous Action. The food we 
eat today is digested and assimilated today. The 
waste is eliminated today. Fresh food reproduces to 
take the place of the waste, and the spontaneous, or 
automatic, functions of the organs of the body, are 
under the direction of the Subconscious Mind. It 
never sleeps nor rests. 

As this change is in progress even now, you may 
have the kind of body you desire. What kind of body 


32 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


have you ordered for tomorrow, next month, next 
year? You may determine this for yourself, by con¬ 
trol of your Mind and habits. 

2. THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IS A MOST 

WONDERFUL CHEMIST. 

The subconscious mind has charge of all secre¬ 
tions in the body. It determines the quality and quan¬ 
tity of all secretions. It can produce any substance 
needed for the body’s perfect development. 

The glands of the body are made up of many 
cells, each performing a certain duty. In each is in¬ 
telligent life. Each cell performs a certain work. 
When the mind is under control, this work is accom¬ 
plished perfectly and all things work together for a 
perfect life, free from disease or decay. But when 
any abnormal conditions control, such as worry, anger, 
fear, lust, or the other ills which mind creates, and 
which are not real, the body becomes poisoned, and 
the intelligent life within us labors in vain in up¬ 
building and reproducing after the pattern of God. 
Control your Mind. 

3. THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IS RESPON¬ 

SIVE TO THE INFLUENCE OF SUGGES¬ 
TIONS, IDEALS AND REALIZATIONS. 

The subconscious mind is amenable to the action 
of the conscious mind, and is influenced in all activi¬ 
ties by the strong and persistent directions of the con¬ 
scious mind. 

4. THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND ACCEPTS THE 

SUGGESTIONS OF THE CONSCIOUS 

MIND WITHOUT CONTROVERSY. 

The subconscious mind will not refute any sug¬ 
gestion made to it, but accepts it as true, or as a basis 
for operation. It always believes you and does as you 
say. This has been proven over and over again in 
the practice of hypnotism. 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 33 


Hypnotism is the art and act of putting the con¬ 
scious mind to sleep, and while in this condition—the 
subconscious mind being awake—suggestion is given 
by the operator to the subconscious mind of the sub¬ 
ject, and action, on the part of the subject, immediate-; 
ly follows according to the suggestion given. Do not 
deride nor discredit hypnotism. It is a proven art, and 
while imitated and misconceived, it is really the dis¬ 
coverer of the subconscious mind. 

5. THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND HAS PERFECT 
DEDUCTIVE REASONING. 

While the conscious mind reasons by all methods 
inductive, deductive, analytical, etc., the subconscious 
mind reasons only deductively. Its deductions are 
always in harmony with the premise, therefore, the 
original suggestion should be correct and life-giving 
in quality. 

It is through this deductive reasoning that what 
we term “Imagination” comes into being. Imagina¬ 
tion is the force that impels the mind forward, and 
sees in mind the things we imagine actually fulfilled 
or realized. It takes the ideal and makes it real. By 
the power of desire, acting by deduction, the subcon¬ 
scious mind makes it real. What you wish to be, or 
desire to have, becomes real through the power of your 
imagination. . ...■ 

Human beings have become ill through this force. 
Suggestion has killed more than once. You may easily 
recall many instances where this is true. Worry is 
imagining failure, want, illness, death and what fol¬ 
lows death, together with other things that never hap¬ 
pen. Anger is imagination visualizing an affront, an 
act of wrong doing, from another to yourself. Lack, 
of self-control brings it into being. It has been said 
that worry and anger, or resentment, are naught but 
“feeling badly because you cannot have your own 
way.” 


34 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


Whatever you imagine, if you hold to it long 
enough, will be brought to pass. This is the inevita¬ 
ble law of the subconscious mind. And even as in the 
sleep of hypnosis, the subconscious mind uses its func¬ 
tion of deductive reasoning while you are in a natural 
sleep. 

You may easily prove this in your own exper¬ 
ience. 

Have you ever had some intricate problem to 
solve; a matter of business, or other personal mat¬ 
ters, that called for a decision? You ask your¬ 
self, through the conscious mind, 11 Shall I do this 
or notV’ The answer has not come. “VU sleep on 
it,” say you; and the subconscious mind, thinking 
while you sleep, makes its deductions, and the first 
impression concerning the question when you awake, 
is the answer of your subconscious mind. 

Give the suggestion to your subconscious mind be¬ 
fore you go to sleep; trust it, and when you awaken, 
act upon it without question. 

Suggestions, in like manner, can be given to oth¬ 
ers while they sleep. 

6. THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IS THE STORE¬ 
HOUSE OF PERFECT MEMORY. 

As the subconscious mind has perfect memory, a 
knowledge of this fact, and a faith in its control, will 
aid us to more perfect recollection of the facts in the 
subconscious storehouse. 

Nothing is really ever forgotten. It may have 
been apparently dismissed from mind, but under cer¬ 
tain circumstances, flashes back when least expected, 
and proves that you have not forgotten; have simply 
not used because there was no use for it. 

Psycho-analysis, or the study of the soul, proves 
conclusively that the effort to repress desire, or to for¬ 
get certain things, has performed a work in making 
character that has been, and is today, but little under- 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 35 


stood. But make a distinction between “Recollect” 
and “Remember.” The memory is a storehouse. To 
re-member, you place in form the treasures of your 
storehouse. Recollection, or re-collection, is to gather 
together the parts for memory to reassemble. Your 
memory is at all times perfect. Suggestion will bring 
from out of your storehouse the certain articles you 
wish to make use of. 

7. THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IS THE SEAT 

OF THE EMOTIONS. 

As our emotions and feelings arise from the store¬ 
house, and the subconscious is amenable to conscious 
direction, the problem of rightly controlling moods 
and emotions may be better understood. 

8. WHENEVER THE EMOTIONS ARE DEEPLY 

AWAKENED THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND 

IS SENSITIZED TO SUGGESTION. 

The psychological opportunity to impress new 
ideals in the subconscious process is one of deep, earn¬ 
est feeling and keenly awakened emotion. 

Whenever the emotions are deeply stirred, THEN 
IS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT. This is 
true in any of your acts. It applies to revivals, polit¬ 
ical meetings, salesmanship. In your resolutions, or 
any act or condition, WHATEVER MOVES, is the 
stronger. 

So Faith heals, mountains are removed, love con¬ 
quers, success is achieved. Right here we sound a 
warning: NEVER PERMIT YOURSELF TO BE 
EMOTIONAL EXCEPT WHEN YOU HAVE 
YOUR PLANS FULLY FORMULATED. Emotions 
may lead you astray. And in your plans, always 
formulate constructive ideas. Follow this construc¬ 
tive plan and you build up. 

Miracles were performed by Jesus, and are per¬ 
formed today, through the combined powers of the 


36 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


sensitized mind and the spoken word. The first is 
Open for suggestion, the emotions are deeply stirred, 
the spoken word offers the suggestion, and action 
follows. 

It may be illustrated by photography. The highly 
sensitized plate or film is exposed to the light, and the 
photograph, or likeness, is reproduced upon the plate 
or film. So. is it with the subconscious mind. Highly 
sensitized it is exposed to the light of suggestion, and 
reproduces or brings into being the semblance of the 
idea suggested. The spoken word is the greatest sug¬ 
gestive force. 

9. THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IS A MASTER 
IMPERSONATOR. 

The constant tendency of the subconscious mind is 
to impersonate whatever is vividly suggested. The 
order of development is sugestion, assumption, imper¬ 
sonation, personification, embodiment. 

You are more than you appear. Your real self 
is hidden behind a mask. Jesus taught this in his 
reference to hypocrites. The root “Hypocrai” from 
which we get “hypocrite” means, “one who plays a 
part;” an actor or impersonator. In ancient times, 
and even today among the Chinese and Japanese, 
actors wear masks, changing their masks to suit the 
character they are impersonating. 

Hypnosis proves the wonderful powers of imper¬ 
sonation dwelling within the subconscious mind. The 
subject may, in turn, enact an idiot, a statesman, a 
singer, a dancer, a dog, or a monkey, according to the 
suggestion given. You find this power in yourself; 
in your ability to enact the role of business man in 
the world, a loving father at home, a preacher or 
teacher on Sunday, or a thing of passion or brutality, 
according to your environment and the state of your 
mind. Study yourself as you know yourself to be, and 
then find the contrast in what you desire to have 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 37 


other people think you are. And keep in mind YOU 
ARE what you desire other people to think you are, if 
you so decide. 

10. THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IS THE SEAT 
OF HABIT. 

The subconscious mind is indeed a “bundle of 
habits.” The subconscious mind might aptly be known 
as the mind of habit. 

It is said that “habit is a second nature.” In 
truth habit is your real nature. You are what you do, 
and wdiat you do is the result of the habit of so 
doing. Habit creates either the bondman or the mas¬ 
ter. It makes you a slave, or sets you free. It raises 
you or lowers you. The difference between evolution 
or degeneration in character is that in the first, you un¬ 
fold from within ennobling, higher thoughts, and in 
the second, you yield to debasing and lowering 
thoughts. You either grow greater, or grow less, and 
the habit of your thought determines which. Habits 
are formed imperceptibly, by degrees, weak at first, 
but growing stronger as you indulge them. This is 
true in either evolution or degeneration. 

By way of illustration: Place your two thumbs 
together; have some one wind a single strand of thread 
about them. It can be easily broken, and even two, 
three, or more threads may be added, and by a little 
additional effort may be snapped asunder. But there 
comes the ONE additional thread that will hold you 
secure. Try as you will, your strength is not sufficient 
to set you free; and each additional thread requires 
greater effort to break. 

So is habit, whether for good or evil; small and 
seemingly insignificant at first, but growing stronger 
as you add to the one indulgence, or practice, another, 
and still another. The habit of wrong thought and 
wrong doing will finally enslave you. The habit of 
right thought and right doing will finally set you free. 


38 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


The Law of Conformity to Type and of Growth makes 
this positive and definite. Because of this we are ad¬ 
monished: To “grow Mo the measure of the fullness 
of the stature of Christ,” “and be filled with ALL the 
fullness of God” (Good). 

The Law of Growth defines it: “Become as a little 
child.” No child is a full grown man. Begin as a 
child, and growth does the rest. 

11. THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IS THE BASIS 

OF TELEPATHIC COMMUNICATION. 

Telepathy is a normal, everyday means of com¬ 
munication between subsconscious minds. Telepathy 
is directed to the subconscious mind, and thought 
transference to the conscious mind of an individual. 

Here is a seeming mystery, but it is practiced 
every day, in most cases unconsciously. Yet it is the 
subconscious mind in operation. 

But distinguish between telepathy and thought 
transference. In telepathy you are receiving thoughts 
from others; in thought transference the same thought 
is held by two or more persons at the same time, and 
transferred from one to the other. This has happened 
so many times in your experience that it requires no 
further comment. 

12. THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IS THE PRO¬ 

TECTOR OF THE LIFE. 

Because of its power to perceive independent of 
space, the subconscious mind detects, when rightly 
charged with life and security, the true pathway of 
safety. It is the fortune teller of life. 

Here then are the marvelous functions of the 
subconscious mind: 

Builder of the body. 

The chemist that transforms the body. 

The responsive agent for character building. 

The means of realization. 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 39 


Reasons perfectly. 

Storehouse of memory. 

Seat of emotions. 

Sensitive to suggestion. 

Master impersonator. 

Seat of habit. 

Basis of telepathy. 

Sees independently of time and space. 

Sees the future, and so becomes the Protector of 

Life. 

Yet, wonderful as it is, the subconscious mind is 
only a suggestion of the glory of the Superconscious 
Mind. 


IV 


THE GLORY WITHIN. 

The Personality and Functions of the Supercon¬ 
scious Mind. 


W E APPROACH with uncovered heads and 
profound reverence the definition and rev¬ 
elation of the Personality of the Supercon¬ 
scious Mind, and the Source of its functions. 
Among the ancients it was esteemed blasphemous and 
presumptuous to even mention the Name of God; and 
even unto this day, in our Bible, the name Jehovah is 
translated “The Lord 

All language descriptive of God and the Soul is, at 
best, but figurative, and the name that can be named 
is not the Eternal Name. So we name without fear 
the name of God. 

Reasoning deductively, we find effects, and back 
of the effects there must be a cause. The cause is 
greater than the effects, and from one cause follows 
many effects. When these effects are working together 
harmoniously for the accomplishment of one purpose, 
we logically ascribe all effects to the one first cause. 
In Nature and in Man we find this true, and therefore 
we find the First Great Cause, God. 

Scientifically, we find all life subject to the Law 
of Conformity to Type. If the first young germs of 
all life, animal or vegetable, are placed under the high¬ 
est power of the microscope, it will be found impos¬ 
sible to distinguish one from the other. This includes 



PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 41 


man. There is no shade of difference; oak, palm, 
apple, dog, worm or man, all start in life together. 

If we analyze this material point at which all life- 
starts, we shall find it to consist of a clear, structure¬ 
less jelly-like substance resembling albumen, or white 
°f egg- It is made of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and 
Nitrogen. Its name is Protoplasm. And it is not 
only the structural unit with which all living bodies 
start in life, but with which they are subsequently 
built up. 

So Science demonstrates the Great First Cause as 
the creator of all life. 

The question naturally arises, what then determines 
the difference between different forms of life? Sci¬ 
ence and the Bible come to our rescue once more and 
show us that the Law of Conformity to Type fashions 
the life germ into that form of life into which it was 
originally created. The Bible record is that God cre¬ 
ated all things by His Word, each “after its kind/* 
and while the original life germ is the same, yet its 
form of expression is different, “after its kind.” Man 
was made in the image and likeness of God, “after His 
Kind/’ but the flesh of man, the vehicle of his expres¬ 
sion of God, was made “after the kind” of all pure 
life with which the world was endowed. It is even so 
today. 

In the image of God man is spiritual, a free moral 
agent. He can make his choice and determine his acts. 
If in his acts he errs, and falls below his high estate, 
he must become a “new creation/’ and through the 
Christ Mind and the spoken word he becomes “fash¬ 
ioned anew in the image of Him who created him.” 

As all Life in Nature declares a first Great Cause, 
so the Life of Man manifests the Source of His being, 
and as the Mind of the Creator is spiritual—proven so 
in the flesh in Jesus of Nazareth—so the Mind of Man 
is spiritual. 


42 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


The Mind shows three phases, or departments, two 
of which we have interpreted. The Conscious Mind 
is Creative, as we have shown. It is the Material Mind. 
The Subconscious Mind is executive. There remains 
the Superconscious Mind, the Ruling Mind of the real 
life, or the Mind of God in Man. And while the con¬ 
scious and subconscious minds are both subjective to 
worldliness, and declare individual preference, the 
Superconscious Mind is never individualized. It is 
always the same and is unchangeable. It is the Uni¬ 
versal or Cosmic Mind, the same in all, and it brings 
to pass the New Creation of Man. 

The Superconscious Mind is the Divine Mind. 
Learn Its personality. 

(1) THE SUPERCONSCIOUS MIND IS THE 
MIND OF DIVINITY. It thinks God’s thoughts. It 
clamors for recognition. “As the hart panteth after 
the water brook, so my soul panteth after thee, 0 
God.” 


(2) IT IS THE SPIRITUAL RECEPTIVE 
MIND, THE FULL COMPLEMENT OF GOD. 

In the plan of creation and reproduction today, 
God cannot operate without the- co-operation of Man. 
Nothing produces of itself. God provides the life germ, 
but Nature, and man, conforming to type, fashion the 
life in the form of its expression. 

In all animate and inanimate life, there enters the 
Masculine and Feminine element. All things to pro¬ 
duce “after their kind” do so through the male and 
female of their species. This is declared in all animal 
life, and in man. In horticulture and agriculture we 
know this to be true. And by the agency of birds and 
bees and insect life, science has made marvelous dis¬ 
coveries to show how the life germ is transported from 
the male to the female in inanimate life through the 
co-operative activities of the lower animal kingdom. 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 43 


Spiritual Man was made in the image of God. 
“Male and female created He them.” While the 
sex relation enters into the association of man with 
woman, yet in this relation there is unity, spiritual 
unity as well as physical. These two are one ; one 
is the complement of the other. This is true marriage. 
The masculine element is creative, the feminine recep¬ 
tive. This is true in all nature. There is no sex in 
Soul, yet unity in purpose brings the body into spirit¬ 
ual relation with the soul. 

In the teachings of the Sacred writings it is sig¬ 
nificant that the church, or assembly of God’s people, 
is always given in the feminine. The Word of God 
(masculine) was to be received and sent out of ZION 
(feminine). The union of the Christ and His church 
is referred to repeatedly as a marriage; the Christ as 
a bridegroom, the church as a bride. Christ is de¬ 
clared the head of His body, the church, and the body 
is compared to the physical body, as having many 
members (or parts), each filled with the same spirit 
which animates and utilizes every part. In the organ¬ 
ism of Man we find many parts; each part animated 
and given true life by the same spirit—superconscious 
mind—will bring forth to the glory of God. 

The Word of God is masculine, creative. The 
Superconscious Mind is receptive (feminine). The 
Superconscious Mind receives the truth—asks not for 
it, but is receptive to it—and gives birth to “that 
Holy thing which is within you,” even as Mary gave 
birth to Jesus, the man child. Here is the Father- 
Mother idea of God. This is what is meant by being 
born of the spirit. There is a part of your being which 
responds to the desires of your better self. It is the 
Superconscious Mind. Christ, the Word, is made per¬ 
fect in you when you receive Him. “But as many as 
received Him, to them gave He power to become the 
sons of God, that were born ... of God.” Without 
willingness of man to receive the spirit of God, God 
cannot function through him. 


44 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


(3) IT IS THE MIND OF PURITY. 

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see 
God.” “To the pure, all things are pure.” 

Purity is the mind of a little child. Innocence 
and purity are the characteristics of childhood. It may 
be easily recognized that the superconscious mind rules 
the whole mind in the period from infancy to puberty, 
which has been termed the “age of accountability.” 
The wrong doing of little children is due to either 
heredity (animal instinct) or environment (objective 
teaching), or both. Their motives have no carnal in¬ 
stinct. Purity and innocence are the attributes of a 
normal child. 

It was because of this that the Master said, “ex¬ 
cept ye become converted (or changed) and become 
as a little child, ye cannot enter the Kingdom of 
Heaven.” The kingdom of heaven is within you. 
The kingdom of heaven is the reign of God, within 
you, in your mind, your affections. The pure mind 
finds it. 

(4) THE SUPERCONSCIOUS MIND IS THE 
MIND OF TRUTH. 

When knowledge of God and of your true rela¬ 
tion to God as His child is received, then Truth dwells 
within you. 

The Superconscious Mind is affected only by 
Truth. It rejects all error. It functions only 
through Truth. It reveals the Truth to the Conscious 
Mind. It is the seat of Intuition, the Inward Teacher 
who speaks by the “still small voice.” It speaks 
Truth. Do not lightly reject intuition. 

(5) THE SUPERCONSCIOUS MIND IS THE 
MIND OF LOVE. 

The true bride awaiting the bridegroom is Love. 
Here is the true marriage. A love marriage. Being 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 45 


the Mind of Love, there is never unfaithfulness. Love 
is kind, generous, patient, hopeful, forgiving. Love 
is all in all. God is love. 

(6) THE SUPERCONSCIOUS MIND IS THE 
COMFORTER. 

The Comforter takes the place of Jesus in the 
lives of men. He is today with men, when they find 
Him within; and receive the assurance that He is : 
with them, when they know their sonship, dignity, 
power and glory. The Superconscious Mind is the 
Christ Mind. 

(7) THE SUPERCONSCIOUS MIND IS THE 
DWELLING PLACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

In the Bible another title is given the Holy Spirit: 
It is Holy Ghost. Being interpreted it means, Holy 
Guest, an honored Guest who dwells within, a guest 
who is Holy. 

And this Guest is within you. 

Is it not wonderful, glorious? 


The Functions of the Superconscious Mind. 

(1) IT FUNCTIONS THROUGH THE CON¬ 
SCIOUS MIND IN SPIRITUAL DESIRE. 

You will reap in the conscious mind what you sow 
in the superconscious mind. Your desire will bring 
a response. 

Whatever you conceive the Divine to be, so it will 
be manifested. 

(2) . IT FUNCTIONS THROUGH FAITH. 

Faith is never objective; it lives not in the visible. 

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evi¬ 
dence of things not seen” 

The conscious mind acts through things ma¬ 
terial and visible; the superconscious finds its sub¬ 
stance in God, the invisible. It depends entirely on the 



46 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


conception held of God, or self, as to how, or in what 
direction, the faith function of the superconscious 
mind will be exercised. 

Bear in mind, your conception of God will be estab¬ 
lished on your conception of yourself. Men fashion 
their own Gods. You worship what you create. 

If you conceive yourself weak and ill, and a failure, 
you will make a god of that idea and worship it. You 
bring it into being and are ruled by it. If you see 
yourself as strong, healthy and a success, you will 
create this good God and be ruled by him. “Accord¬ 
ing to your faith, so he it unto you.” Function the 
faith of a pure mind, the child mind, the love mind, 
the mind of understanding, and your Superconscious 
Mind will bring all things to pass. 

(3) IT FUNCTIONS THROUGH PRAYER. 

Prayer is the connecting link between God and 
Man. It is the telepathic connection between the 
things seen and the great unseen. It is Silent De¬ 
mand. 

And it has wondrous power. “The prayer of 
faith shall heal the sick.” 

“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one 
for another that you may he healed. The effectual 
fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much,” 
James 5:16. See also 17th and 18th verses. 

“Ask and ye shall receive.” 

“Pray without ceasing.” 

“Men should always pray and not faint,” are 
scriptural admonitions and assurances. The prayer of 
faith believes God is. Why pray to that which is not ? 
It brings God to us. 

But pray aright. 

The Master has given us the instruction. 

First, how NOT to pray. Matt. 6 :15. 

“And when thou prayest, thou shalt not he as the 
hypocrites are; for they love to pray standing in the 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 47 


synagogues , and in the corners of the streets, that they 
may be see<n of men .. 

How to pray. Matt. 6 :6. 

“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy 
closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy 
Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth 
in secret will reward thee openly.” 

Enter into thy closet and close thy door. Shut 
out the world. Enter the Silence. 

What is Silence? Absence of sound; separation 
from activity; leaving the world. Enter the Silence— 
anywhere. You may enter into inner sense commun¬ 
ion anywhere, shut out the world even as you close 
your eyes when you sleep, pray, or meditate.. 

Deprive your conscious mind of its objective func¬ 
tion, shut it out; give yourself to meditation, fixing 
your mind on what you most desire; concentrate on 
your desire; demand it; hold to it. Prayer is silent 
demand, not verbose or vociferous mouthings of set 
phrases, or indefinite supplications. Give yourself to 
God in the Silence at fixed hours daily, “and thy 
Father who seeth in secret will reward thee openly 

“After this manner pray ye:” 

“Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be 
thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in 
earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily 
bread: And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our 
debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver 
us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, 
and the glory, for ever. Amen.” 

And here is the esoteric interpretation: 

“Our Father,” Creator, Provider, Good 

Within. 

“which art in heaven,” In Me—in My Heart and 

Soul and Mind. 


48 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


“H wll o w e d be thy 
name,” 

“Thy kingdom come,” 

“Thy will be done on 
earth as it is in heav¬ 
en.” 

“Give us this day our 
daily bread,” 


“And forgive us our 
debts,” 

“As we forgive our 
debtors,” 

“And lead us not into 
. temptation,” 

“But deliver us from 
evil;” 

“For thine IS the king¬ 
dom,” 

“The Power and the 
Glory forever. 

Amen.” 


Thy Name is Holy. 

Thy kingdom is within 
Me. 

In my material body, 
even as in my spiritual 
body. 

I am fed with the Bread 
of Life. 

Grant me my righteous 
desires. 

I crave forgiveness of 

all I owe Thee in spir¬ 
itual understanding, in 
proportion as I forgive 
misconceptions of the 
higher life within me. 

Lead me from the sug¬ 
gestions of the Con¬ 
scious Mind, and de¬ 
liver me from the ef¬ 
fects of wrong sug¬ 
gestions to my sub¬ 
conscious mind: 

For Thy Reign is within 
me, in the Eternal 
Power and Glory of 
the Superconscious 
Mind forever. Amen. 


This prayer combines confession, affirmation and 
supplication, and these are the elements of true 
prayer. 

’ So pray, not literally in these words, for prayer 
should be spontaneous, but with these thoughts, and 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 49 


the Superconscious Mind will bring you face to face 
with the God in yourself, and you will be able to real¬ 
ize while you affirm, 

“1 and the Father are one.” 

The great prayer of the Master on the night be¬ 
fore his crucifixion was an earnest appeal to that end: 

“That they may be one, even as we are one.” 

Unity in Trinity. Three in One. One in Three. 

That God he all and all, and in all. 

Is not this the greatest glory, the glory within 
yourself? Do you not realize that this glory is within 
you, and is it not plain to you that with this power 
and glory within you there is nothing impossible ? 

The Mind of Divinity. 

The Spiritual Receptive Mind. 

The Mind of Purity. 

The Mind of Truth. 

The Mind of Love. 

The Mind of the Comforter. 

The Dwelling place of the Holy Ghost (Guest), 
Is the Mind of the Christ within, ever with us, the 
full assurance of our Power and Glory. So go preach 
it, beginning with yourself. Use the Power of the 
spoken word. 

The Great Commission given to His first Apos¬ 
tles applies to us: 

“Go ye therefore and teach all nations; baptizing 
them in the name of the Father (Creator), and of the 
Son (executive), and of the Holy Ghost (Guest).” 

“Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever 
I have commanded YOU, and LO, I AM WITH YOU 
alway, even unto the end of the world.” Matt. 28: 
19, 20. 

And the things he had commanded them included 
healing the sick, casting out devils (unclean thoughts), 
raising the dead (the dead soul to the living spirit), 
and the restoration to sight, hearing and understand¬ 
ing those who through “grossness” of heart saw not, 


50 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 

heard not, nor understood. This is for us to do today 
beginning with ourselves through the power of the 
SPOKEN WORD. 

The Superconscious Mind functioning through 
Spiritual Desire in our Conscious Mind; Faith in our 
Power and Trust in God; Prayer, in the Silence after 
the pattern of the Lord’s prayer, is the power to 
bring all things to pass. 

There is an apostolic succession. Not directly 
through the men who succeeded the first apostles, nor 
through observance of forms and ceremonies in the 
church: but through US. We do the works of the 
Christ today. Understanding of Christian Psychol¬ 
ogy, or the Science of the Christ, enables us so to do, 
for it reveals to us our power and our glory in THE 
CHRIST, or the Christ in US. 


y. 

THE REIGN OF LAW. 

Physical, Psychical, and Spiritual, With Twelve 
Apostolic Rules for Practice in each. 


T HE Kingdom, or reign of God, is the kingdom, 
or reign of heaven within you, or about you. 
So Jesus taught. 

About you it is demonstrated in Nature; 
within you, it is demonstrated in yourself. In both it 
is declared in Law governing both Nature and Man. 

Man is a trinity of Body, Soul and Spirit, defined 
by some as the Physical, Mental and Moral. Psycho¬ 
logically, it is the Mind; conscious, subconscious, and 
superconscious that governs all, and this is Truth, for 
Mind is the Ruler. 

But there are Natural Laws as well as Spiritual 
Laws. There are laws governing the physical; laws 
governing the mental; laws governing the moral. Vio¬ 
lation of these laws is followed by the consequences 
of such violation. “Whatsoever a man soweth, THAT 
shall he also reap,” and we are judged by “the deeds 
done in the body.” 

It may be merely coincident, but nevertheless, sig¬ 
nificant, that there are twelve statutes or ordinances— 
call them rules if you please—to observe in our prac¬ 
tice, or observance of the laws governing our triune 
personality. Being twelve, they would seem to indi¬ 
cate our apostolic succession. 



52 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


In order to a full enlightenment as to our method 
of procedure in obeying these laws, we will consider 
in their order, the rules for practice in the care of our 
physical, mental and moral, or psychical being. 

Study them carefully and practice them regu¬ 
larly. They cannot fail you. They are the laws of 
health, wealth, prosperity and “the LIFE MORE 
ABUNDANT.” 


TWELVE LAWS FOR THE CARE OF THE 
BODY. 

These laws are essential to life and HEALTH in 
the body. Health is the “normal state of being .” 

(1) The Law of Sunlight. 

“God said, let there be light, and there ivas 
light.” These are the first recorded words of creative 
force—Light. 

Sunlight is the strongest stimulant, the mightiest 
vitalizer in all nature. It is the agent of the Power 
that moves the world and all things therein. It is the 
great purifier, the destroyer of germs in air, water and 
earth. Keep in the sunlight as much as possible. Live 
in the great out of doors. Insist upon it. Find God 
in Nature, “Sermons in stones, books in running 
brooks, and good { God) in everything.” 

(2) The Law of Air. 

Of all things in Nature, air is the most immedi¬ 
ately necessary to life. Fresh air is imperative. Air 
is the spirit of Life in Nature. 

Men have lived fifty days without food, but no 
man can live ten minutes without fresh air. 

Live in the open as much as possible. Sleep in 
rooms well ventilated. Raise your windows before 
you retire at night. 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 53 


(3) The Law of Breathing. 

All breathing should be done through the nostrils. 
If the nasal passages are closed up, have the obstruc¬ 
tions removed. The moist nasal passages take out the 
dust and germs, and the air is warmed and moistened 
before it reaches the vocal cords and the lungs. 

Breathe from the diaphragm up. 

The diaphragm is the organ of breathing. 
Breathe deeply. A full lung capacity is seldom ob¬ 
tained. Deep, rythmical breathing is inspirational 
and spiritual. Air and breathing provide, not only 
life and health, but inspire the Superconscious Mind. 
The seat of the Superconscious Mind is the heart and 
lungs. 

(4) The Law of Food. 

Food is necessary to supply the material for 
building up a constantly changing body. As the body 
is composed of elemental substances, iron, phosphates, 
calcium, and other minerals and heat producing sub¬ 
stances, the food taken should be selected with an eye 
to its mineral and caloric value. All the elements of 
the mineral and vegetable world enter into the struc¬ 
ture of the body. Food should supply the elements 
which waste has depleted. Purchase a book treating 
on dietetics and food selection, and arrange your 
menu accordingly. 

Chew your food thoroughly. There is no hurry. 
Do not eat when you are in a hurry. Eat only when 
you are hungry. Do not eat for the sake of eating, 
but because your body demands sustenance. Eat 
slowly. Do not eat when your mind is disturbed from 
any cause, it is harmful to your health and well be¬ 
ing. Eat but little, if any, meat. Man is not a meat 
eating animal. Morally, he should obey the command¬ 
ment “Thou shalt not kill.” There is the element of 
age in all lower animal life; also of fear in all slaugh¬ 
tered beasts. These elements enter into your life. We 


54 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


become like that which we eat. Old age and its accom¬ 
panying ills, is largely superinduced through meat 
eating. Eat meat if you wish to, but fruits, nuts, 
grains and vegetables are better. 

(5) The Law of Water Drinking. 

Enough good, pure water should be drunk daily 
to keep the blood and lymphatic circulation at a max¬ 
imum state of fluiditj'. This will make it possible for 
the depurating organs; skin, liver, lungs, bowels and 
kidneys, to throw out the worn out waste from the 
body. 

Drink not less than two quarts of water daily. A 
glass of hot water upon arising, one half hour before 
eating, and before retiring, will prove of vast value 
in troubles of the stomach and bowels. Water should 
be pure. Filtered and distilled water removes extra¬ 
neous impurities, in the first place, and destroys germs 
in the second. Distilling purifies hard water. Drink 
plenty of pure water, and no other drink will be nec¬ 
essary. Fruit juices are valuable, not only as a drink, 
but as a food as well. 

(6) The Law of Bathing. 

Cleanliness of body, both internal and external, 
is one of the most necessary conditions of health. 
Daily bathing of some sort is recommended at all sea¬ 
sons. The water for bathing may be cold, hot or tepid. 

Cold baths are to be taken in the morning, warm 
in the evening, preferred. Cold baths should last not 
longer than two minutes. Use common sense in the 
cold bath. The shock is not good for the heart or 
nerves. Common salt, sea salt, or epsom salts add to 
the virtue of the warm bath in nervous or debilitating 
disorders. 

The internal bath is important in keeping the in¬ 
testinal tract clean. It may be used, when necessarj^ 
once a week. It is simple and efficacious. Use a foun¬ 
tain syringe, and about two quarts of warm water. 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 55 


Keep this in mind, however: A healthy mind 
makes a healthy body, and if the eliminating organs 
are performing their functions properly, the internal 
bath will not be necessary. 

(7) The Law of Exercise. 

The motive power of man and his physical 
strength depend on his muscles; therefore exercise of 
the muscles, whether through labor or otherwise, is 
essential to strength. Exercise not only strengthens 
the muscles, but raises the temperature of the body. 
Heat is life. Use less fire and more exercise. The 
form of exercise should be of such a nature as to 
bring into play all of the muscles of the body. Almost 
any book on physical culture will give you the infor¬ 
mation you desire on this subject. 

Exercise becomes more efficient if with it you vis¬ 
ualize the purpose for which you are taking it. Affirm 
while you are taking it: “1 am strong” .“I am pow¬ 
erful,” and synonymous terms, and you will grow cor¬ 
respondingly stronger as you exercise. 

(8) The Law of Clothing. 

Clothing is worn for protection. To be worn 
properly it should not constrict any of the organs of 
the body, nor interfere with free motion of the limbs. 
In both men and women clothing should be suspended 
from the shoulders, placing the burden where it be¬ 
longs. 

Psychologically, proper dress is of vast impor¬ 
tance. Clean, well made, attractive clothing indicates 
the harmonious spirit within. It creates even as it 
declares self-respect, and it attracts favorable atten¬ 
tion. The beauty of the dress in nature attracts the 
eye to the glory of God. So should our dress be beau¬ 
tiful; of the best materials we can afford, “rich, but 
not gaudy,” and not in the extreme of fashion. Os¬ 
tentation is not harmony. Your dress indicates your 
prosperity, so dress well. 


56 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


(9) The Law of Physical Personality. 

It may surprise you to learn that the manner in 
which you carry yourself has a mental effect on your 
physical health and well being. The round-shouldered, 
slouchy, loose-limbed fellow may be organically 
healthy, but he does not show it nor will he be for 
long. A careless attitude of body declares a careless 
attitude of mind; neither demonstrates perfect health. 

The muscles are made for use. The use of them 
gives you strength. Strength is personality. Person¬ 
ality is both mental and physical. In your practice 
begin with the FACE. Eyes open and bright—on 
your face a smile. It takes sixty-seven muscles to 
make a frown, but thirteen to make a smile; why over¬ 
work yourself? Voice cheerful, expression genial; 
turn up the corners of your mouth in a smile, and 
you cannot be “grouchy.” 

Be a magnet to attract success and you will ra¬ 
diate prosperity. SMILE. Like produces like. 

Body, erect. Practice straightening up. It adds 
to your appearance; gives your heart, stomach, lungs, 
liver and kidneys room to exercise their functions, 
and will promote your health and vigor. It stands old 
age at bay. STAND ERECT. 

Use your ARMS in graceful gestures. Keep your 
LEGS straight and close together. In walking, step 
lively and briskly. Do not slouch along. TURN OUT 
YOUR TOES. Take good care of your feet; wear 
shoes that fit you, and keep them clean. 

In your attitude be live, confident, sure of your¬ 
self, demonstrating the Son of Man, who is the Son of 
God. 

(10) The Law of Application. 

“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with 

all thy might.” Do it regularly. Work at regular 
hours; eat at regular hours; sleep, rest, all that you do 
physically, make it a habit. Habit is second nature. 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 57 


Form good habits, apply yourself fully to all that 
you do, and your physical being will respond after a 
fashion that will surprise you. You will do better 
work and demand better pay. 

(11) The Law of Compensation. 

In all you do, work to the end of receiving ade¬ 
quate returns for your labor. It is detrimental to 
your health to use your body to no purpose, or without 
compensation for what you do. There is no return for 
the labor. It is useless labor on your part. Demand 
pay. Eat with the thought of physical compensation ; 
drink, breathe, exercise, dress, with the thought of 
profit. This is spiritual as well as physical, but it 
is primarily a Natural Law, and has to do with the 
care of your body. The compensation you are seeking 
is life. The abundant life. 

(12) The Law of Rest. 

This includes rest of the body, of the brain, of 
the mind, all. 

Rest of the body is secured in relaxation and 
sleep. The former may be obtained in your office or 
your room, in Silence, letting go of muscles, and quiet¬ 
ing the nerves in peaceful meditation or mental blank¬ 
ness. Sleep is natural rest. It is the real source of 
strength to the body. 

Physical rest is inaction of the body. Inaction 
can best be secured through comfort. Beds should be 
easy, moderately soft and flexible; kept well aired, 
and furnished with coverings light, but warm. Eight 
hours is the usual period of rest. It is amply sufficient. 

Mental rest is secured by change. The ability 
to forget your work, or your worries, your problems 
and their solution. Change of occupation; excursions ; 
journeys, with a change of scene; entertainments, 
games, mental diversions; a change in your character 
of reading, play; all are conducive to mental rest. 


58 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


God may forgive you if you forget to pray, but your 
physical body will never forgive you if you forget to 
play. 

Spiritual rest is secured in but one way. Abso¬ 
lute trust in the personal Creator. This brings per¬ 
fect peace, and this is perfect rest. Prosperity and 
health follow. 

In this analysis, in your care for the physical 
body, use the Power within. 

When you enjoy the sunlight, visualize God, the 
Creator of Light. Find the sunlight in your soul. 

When you breathe the air, breathe deeply and 
invoke the spirit of God to fill you. Air is the atmos¬ 
phere of the spirit. 

When you eat, think of the Bread of Life. When 
you drink, hold the thought of the Water of Life. 

When you bathe, wash your soul clean with words 
of cleansing power. 

When you exercise, also bring into play the fun¬ 
damental strength of your Spiritual Being—faith¬ 
thinking. 

When you dress, affirm that you are clothed with 
the clean linen which is the garb of right thinking 
and right doing. 

In your physical personality, assume the attitude 
of a child of God, smiling, erect, cheerful, faithful. 
Man was made to stand erect, to show his superiority 
as a Son of God, instead of crawling, or moving on all 
fours. 

In your application to your labors, be regular in 
your spiritual creative labors, affirming “We are la¬ 
borers together with God.” 

In the application of the law of compensation, 
do great things for God, expect great things from 
God. “The laborer is worthy of his hire.” Give 
yourself, demand your pay. Say “I am working with 
God. I shall be paid ” and expect it. 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 59 


Say “I am success” and find it. 

Say “I am health” and realize it. 

And when you rest, give yourself up in trust to 
God; to that rest which comes from trust, and brings 
peace. “Resting in the everlasting arms.” 

Obey the laws of Nature and your physical being, 
backing them up with the laws of your real life, your 
mind, and all things are yours. 

The body is the physical manifestation of your 
life, that is all, and as your mind is, so will your body 
be. 

“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou may- 
est prosper and be in health even as thy soul pros- 
pereth.” 3 John 2. 

TWELVE RULES FOR THE CULTIVATION OF 
CREATIVE WORD POWER 

1. Realize that life, health and success are in 
the “power of the tongue.” “The tongue of the wise 
is a fountain of life.” 

2. Resolve to be absolutely constructive in 
thought, word and action. 

3. Write out a list of thirty-one words, denot¬ 
ing various phases of health, one for each day of the 
month. Choose such words as health, strength, pow¬ 
er, force, energy, youth, etc. 

4. Make each of these words the center of a con¬ 
structive statement in affirmative form. For examp- 
ple, “The power to express perfect health is divinely 
natural.” “My strength is daily increasing.” “1 
am growing in my expression of poise and power.” 

5. Copy these affirmations on thirty-one cards, 
so that you may place one each day in a conspicuous 
place for concentration, and as a keynote for daily 
demonstration. 

6. Make out a list of thirty-one words expressive 
of success, achievement and prosperity; formulate a 


60 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


corresponding number of success affirmations includ¬ 
ing these words, and also copy on cards for daily use. 

7. Write a letter to some one written exclusively 
in words of a constructive character. Write only of 
desirable conditions in all affirmative words. 

8. Select a page or two from any book and re¬ 
write it so that the edited copy includes only construc¬ 
tive words. 

9. Secure a dictionary of synonyms, and select¬ 
ing constructive words of a vital and happy character, 
look up the synonymous words, or other words, very 
closely related or associated with them. 

10. Find certain words of a pleasing, natural 
order that would give greater variety and vitality to 
your vocabulary. Seek an early opportunity to make 
appropriate use of these in your writing or conver¬ 
sation. 

11. Seek to carry on an animated conversation 
in which every word is entirely constructive. Cleverly 
and naturally bring the conversation when essential 
to purely constructive phases. 

12. Try in all conversation to gradually intro¬ 
duce the constructive language, and in all your writ¬ 
ing. Make this a fine art, and the reward will be very 
rich and satisfactory. You will, in this way, re-edu¬ 
cate the subconscious mind, and transform your en¬ 
tire life. 

TWELVE RULES FOR THE CULTIVATION OF 
PSYCHIC AND SPIRITUAL POWERS 

1. In order to have true psychic development in 
a helpful, wholesome, balanced way, be sure that your 
development is complete in every phase, physical, men¬ 
tal and spiritual. 

2. Concentrate the mind on the finer side of life. 
Think constructively, speak constructively, and act 
constructively. 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 61 


3. Study earnestly the finer powers of the sub¬ 
conscious mind, for example, its power of clear seeing 
and clear hearing. 

4. Realize that space is purely objective, and 
that to be subjective, all is present. Distance is only 
relative, and does not condition the subconscious mind. 

5. Realize that telepathy is a normal power of 
the subconscious mind, and distinguish clearly be¬ 
tween telepathy and thought transference. Telep¬ 
athy is communication between subconscious minds. 
Thought transference is communication between con¬ 
scious minds. 

6. Realize that the subconscious mind is the nor¬ 
mal protector of the life, and can protect fully when 
charged with a 100 per cent, life instinct. 

7. Psychic development pertains to the subcon¬ 
scious mind; spiritual development to the supercon¬ 
scious mind. Distinguish clearly between the two pro¬ 
cesses. Should the spiritual be symbolized by the sun¬ 
light, the psychic might appropriately be symbolized 
by the moonlight. 

8. Realize that the superconscious mind is the 
source of pure intuition, as contrasted with psychic 
impression. 

9. Practice the Silence daily, preferably at the 
same time and place, so that the habit may be thor¬ 
oughly initiated and sustained. 

10. Relax the mind from all concentration, for 
the time being, on psychic or physical phenomena, so 
that you many give yourself with absolute devotion 
to the Silence. 

11. Dwell on words or thoughts indicative of the 
Absolute, the Eternal, the Infinite such as Love, Life, 
Joy and Wisdom. 

12. Realize that you are absolutely one in es¬ 
sence and substance with the Divine power of the 
universe. 


62 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


TWELVE RULES FOR HEALTH ATTAINMENT 
AND HEALING 

1 . 

Realize that the body is an ever-renewing organ¬ 
ism, composed of ever-changing cells, molecules and 
atoms, and that it is scientifically possible to build an 
entirely new body of perfect health, strength and 
youth. 

2 . 

Realize that the subconscious mind is the power 
and intelligence at work rebuilding the body, and is 
subject to the instruction of the conscious mind. 

3. 

Realize that the conscious mind can be inspired, 
illumined and rendered creatively vital by daily pe¬ 
riods of silent communion with the superconscious 
mind, thus increasing its healing and renewing power. 

4. 

In this vitalized consciousness, definitely and spe¬ 
cifically instruct the subconscious mind in periods of 
creative concentration with the ideal plan and the per¬ 
fect will to build the body in radiant health, power 
and beauty. 

5. 

Make this period of concentration more colorful, 
dramatic, graphic and creative by richly visualizing 
the external appearance of health, youth and strength. 
See yourself in mind becoming the very image and in¬ 
carnation of health. 

6 . 

Make all healing suggestions while in a state of 
earnest, sincere and deep, rich feeling of awakened, 
spiritual emotion, so that the subconscious mind is 
truly sensitized to receive the suggestions to a work¬ 
ing degree of power. 


PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 63 


7. 

Realize that the fountain of perfect, permanent 
health, of ever-renewing youth, optimism, joy and 
power is within you by virtue of your divine relation¬ 
ship and birthright and know that this health will 
assuredly manifest. 

8 . 

In healing others, realize that regardless of pres¬ 
ent appearance and feelings, that the true healing 
power is within them, and believe with perfect faith 
that this health will be expressed, and make your sug¬ 
gestions either audibly or silently to the one you desire 
to heal. If absent physically, suggest presence sub¬ 
jectively and spiritually. 

9. 

Have regular hours for giving or receiving treat¬ 
ment for healing. The early morning, or middle af¬ 
ternoon, are best. If given at other times let your 
meals be light. You cannot fully concentrate on a 
full stomach. 

10 . 

Use your intelligence or intuition to decide wheth¬ 
er rest or activity is most essential. Often outdoor, 
joyous activity is to be practiced, alternated with si¬ 
lence and rest. 

11 . 

In health building, combine rationally deep, ryth¬ 
mical breathing, physical exercise, wholesome, natural 
rejuvenative diet, exercising wisdom in all habits men¬ 
tal and physical. 

12 . 

Realize that the subconscious mind is the seat of 
the emotions, and that as the subconscious mind is re¬ 
sponsive to the commands of the conscious mind, we 
can learn to express life-engendering, youth-renewing, 
health-creating emotions at all times, favorably influ¬ 
encing the entire chemistry of the life. 


64 PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


TWELVE GOOD RULES THAT WILL PROMOTE 
SUCCESS IN CENTERING THE MIND 
ON ANY SUBJECT 

(1) Make your motive power for attaining con¬ 
centration as strong as possible. There are plenty of 
interesting, important reasons why you should for¬ 
ward every effort to master concentration. Success 
in this art means prosperity and abundance in ail 
your affairs. 

(2) Realize that the power is within you to at¬ 
tain perfect success in the art of concentration. The 
power is assuredly latent within you, and can be called 
forth by wise effort. 

(3) Make up your mind that concentration is 
simply a habit, and that you are to work at it persist¬ 
ently and wisely enough to establish it in your subcon¬ 
scious make-up. 

(4) Call your thoughts back a hundred or a 
thousand times. Soon it will be easy, because it will 
be subconscious. You will have built it into the 
automatism of your life, and you will concentrate like 
a good marksman. 

(5) Develop as much of interest value as pos¬ 
sible in your subject or work, as concentration is sim¬ 
ply interested attention. We concentrate easily on 
things in which we are deeply interested. We can 
develop points of interest in all subjects and all work 
by giving creative imagination to the subject. 

(6) Have a special time set apart each day for 
definite exercises in concentration. The busiest man 
can find time for concentrative practice for the very 
simple reason that as soon as this power is acquired, 
it becomes an ideal economizer of both energy and 
time. One is able to get the maximum result with the 
minimum of effort because one’s power is wisely util¬ 
ized. 


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(7) For your concentrative practice, select sub¬ 
jects of genuine value so that your power of concen¬ 
tration is both exercised and nourished. Concentrate 
upon thoughts and subjects that are of a superior 
quality and important to impress upon the subcon¬ 
scious mind. 

(8) One good method of cultivating concentra¬ 
tion on affirmations is to give each important word 
of the statement alternate emphasis. This will sus¬ 
tain your attention for a prolonged period. It will 
enable you to more fully appreciate the significance 
of the statement made. Through richer exposure to 
full details of the new ideal, the subconscious mind 
receives a deeper and more permanent impression. 

(9) Concentration is intensified by the practice 
of visualization. Use your creative imagination, and 
make as perfect mental pictures as possible. See the 
thing you desire “in your mind’s eye.” An impres¬ 
sion is made stronger by making it graphic. 

(10) Summon your deepest, richest feeling 
when you want to impress your subconscious mind 
with a new thought or tendency. 

The subconscious mind is sensitized, and there¬ 
fore rendered more suggestable, by your emotional 
force, and your thought is rendered more creative by 
the thoroughness of your concentration and the con¬ 
sciousness of your relationship with the Infinite Spirit. 

(11) Before entering upon a work requiring 
special concentration, take at least a few moments for 
as complete relaxation as possible. 

(12) Get your whole being in perfect health 
and order so that your body will operate harmoni¬ 
ously, leaving your conscious attention quite free. 








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PART II. 


ESSAYS 
To be used in the 

Practice of 

Christian Psychology 


The following essays to be used in the practice of 
Christian Psychology, Universal Prosperity Partner¬ 
ship, are from the writings of Prentice Mulford, who 
passed on from the earth life May 27, 1891. He was 
the founder of a system of philosophy profound and 
far-reaching He seemed to absorb from ancient phil¬ 
osophy, from Christianity, Buddhism and Spiritual¬ 
ism, what suited him and to reject the rest. While 
his system does not entertain in all the complete prin¬ 
ciples of Christian Psychology, yet, with these prin¬ 
ciples kept in mind, we offer these essays in the prac¬ 
tice of the Truth, because they are inspiring and 
strengthening, and nothing better has ever been writ¬ 
ten. One sentence used by Mr. Mulford in his work 
stands as a memorial of him, and that sentence forms 
the crux of our philosophy, viz., 

“Thoughts are things. 99 

His works are out of print, and therefore we re¬ 
print them in part for the revelation of the “Power 
Within" that they teach and the upbuilding that will 
inevitably follow. To them we have added affirma¬ 
tions which will make them real and vital to the indi¬ 
vidual reader. 

EDWARD OLIVER TILBURNE. 


I. 

THE MATERIAL MIND 
vs. 

THE SPIRITUAL MIND 

T HERE belongs to every human being a higher 
self and a lower self—a self or mind of the 
spirit, which has been growing for ages, and a 
self of the body, which is but a thing of yes¬ 
terday. The higher self is full of prompting idea, 
suggestion and aspiration. This it receives of tha 
Supreme Power. All this the lower or animal self 
regards as wild and visionary. The higher self argues 
possibilities and power for us greater than men and 
women now possess and enjoy. The lower self says 
we can only live and exist as men and women have 
lived and existed before us. The higher self craves 
freedom from the cumbrousness, the limitations, the 
pains and disabilities of the body. The lower self says 
that we are born to them, born to ill, born to suffer, 
and must suffer as have so many before us. The 
higher self wants a standard for right and wrong of 
its own. The lower self says we must accept a stand¬ 
ard made for us by others—by general and long-held 
opinion, belief and prejudice. 

“To thine own self be true,” is an oft-uttered 
adage. But to which self? The higher or lower? 

You have in a sense two minds—the mind of the 
body and the mind of the spirit. 


70 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


Spirit is a force and a mystery. All we know or 
may ever know of it is that it exists, and is ever work¬ 
ing and producing all results in physical things seen 
of physical sense and many more not so seen. 

What is seen, of any object, a tree, an animal, 
a stone, a man, is only a part of that tree, animal, 
stone or man. There is a force which for a time binds 
such objects together in the form you see them. That 
force is always acting on them to a greater or lesser 
degree. It builds up the flower to its fullest maturity. 
Its cessation to act on the flower or tree causes what 
we call decay. It is constantly changing the shape of 
all forms of what are called organized matter. An an¬ 
imal, a plant, a human being are not in physical shape 
this month or this year what they will be next month 
or next year. 

This ever-acting, ever-varying force, which lies 
behind and, in a sense, creates all forms of matter, we 
call spirit. 

To see, reason and judge of life and things in the 
knowledge of this force makes what is termed the 
“Spiritual Mind” . 

We have through knowledge the wonderful power 
of using or directing this force, when we recognize it, 
and know that it exists so as to bring us health, happi¬ 
ness and eternal peace of mind. Composed as we are 
of this force, we are ever attracting more of it to us 
and making it a part of our being. 

With more of this force must come more and 
more knowledge. At first in our physical existence we 
allow it to work blindly. Then we are in the ignorance 
of that condition known as the material mind. But 
as mind through its growth or increase of this power 
becomes more and more awakened, it asks: “Why 
comes so much of pain , grief and disappointment in 
the physical lifet” “Why do we seem born to suffer 
and decay f” 


PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 71 


That question is the very first awakening cry of 
the spiritual mind, and any earnest question or de¬ 
mand for knowledge must in time be answered. 

The material mind is a part of yourself, which has 
been appropriated by the body and educated by the 
body. Something as if you taught a child that the 
wheels of a steamboat made the boat move, and said 
nothing of the steam, which gives the real 
power. Bred in such ignorance, should the wheels 
stop moving, the child would look no farther for the 
cause of their stoppage than to try to find 
where to repair them, very much as now so many 
depend entirely on repair of the physical body to en¬ 
sure its healthy, vigorous movement, never dreaming 
that the imperfection lies in the real motive power— 
the mind. 

The mind of the body or material mind sees, 
thinks and judges entirely from the material or phys¬ 
ical standpoint. It sees in your own body all there is 
of you. The spiritual mind sees the body as an in¬ 
strument for the mind or real self to use in dealing 
with material things. The material mind sees in the 
death of the body an end of all there is of you. The 
spiritual mind sees in the death of the body only the 
falling off from the spirit of a worn-out instrument. 
It knows that you exist as before only invisible to 
the physical eye. The material mind sees your phys¬ 
ical strength as coming entirely from your muscles 
and sinews, and not from a source without your body. 

It sees in such persuasive power, as you may have 
with tongue or pen, the only force you possess for 
dealing with people to accomplish results. The spir¬ 
itual mind will know in time that your thought in¬ 
fluences people for or against your interests, though 
their bodies are thousands of miles distant. The ma¬ 
terial mind does not regard its thought as an actual 
element as real as air or water. The spiritual mind 
knows that every one of its thousand daily secret 


72 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


thoughts are real things, acting on the minds of the 
persons they are sent to. The spiritual mind knows 
that matter or the material is only an expression of 
spirit or force; that such matter is ever changing iu 
accordance with the spirit that makes or externalizes 
itself in the form we call matter, and therefore, if 
the thought of health, strength and recuperation is 
constantly held to in the mind, such thought of health, 
strength and rejuvenation will express itself in the 
body, making maturity never ceasing, vigor never 
ending and the keenness of every physical sense ever 
increasing. 

The material mind thinks matter, or what is 
known by our physical senses to be the largest part 
of what exists. The spiritual mind regards matter 
as the coarser or cruder expression of spirit and the 
smallest part of what really exists. The material 
mind is made sad at the contemplation of decay. The 
spiritual mind attaches little importance to decay, 
knowing in such decay that spirit or the moving force 
in all things is simply taking the dead body or the 
rotten tree to pieces, and that it will build them up 
again as before temporarily into some other new phys¬ 
ical form of life and beauty. The mind of the body 
thinks that its physical senses of seeing, hearing and 
feeling constitute all the senses akin to those of phys¬ 
ical sight and hearing, but more powerful and far 
reaching. 

The mind of the body has been variously termed 
“the material mind,” the “mortal mind” and the 
“carnal mind ” All these refer to the same mind, or, 
in other words, to that part of your real self which 
has been educated in error by the body. 

If you had been born and bred entirely among 
pebple who believed that the earth was a flat surface 
and did not revolve around the sun, you would in the 
earlier years of your physical growth believe as they 
did. Exactly in such fashion do you in your earlier 


PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 73 


years absorb the thought and belief of those nearest 
you, who think that the body is all there is of them, 
and judge of everything by its physical interpreta¬ 
tion to them. This makes your material mind. 

The material mind seeing, what seems to it, death, 
dissolution and decay in all human organizations, and 
ignorant of the fact that the real self or intelligence 
has in such seeming death only cast off a worn out 
envelope, thinks that decay and death is the ultimate 
of all humanity. For such reason it cannot avoid a 
gloom or sadness coming of such error, which per¬ 
vades so much of human life at present. One result 
or reaction from which gloom born of hopelessness is 
a reckless spirit for getting every possible gratifica¬ 
tion and pleasure, regardless of right and justice so 
long as the present body lasts. 

This is a great mistake. All pleasure so gained 
cannot be lasting. It brings beside an hundredfold 
more misery and disappointment. 

The spiritual mind teaches that pleasure is the 
great aim of existence. But it points out ways and 
means for gaining lasting happiness other than those 
coming of the teaching of the material mind. The 
spiritual mind, or mind opened to higher and newer 
forces of life, teaches that there is a law regulating 
the exercise of every physical sense. When we learn 
end follow this law, our gratifications and possessions 
do not prove sources of greater pain than happiness, 
as they do to so many. 

By the spiritual mind is meant a clearer mental 
sight of things and forces existing both in us and the 
Universe, and of which the race for the most part has 
been in total ignorance. We have now but a glimpse 
of these forces, those of some being relatively a little 
clearer than those of others. But enough has been 
shown to convince a few that the real and existing 
causes for humanity’s sickness, sorrow and disappoint¬ 
ment have not in the past been seen at all. In other 


74 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


words, the race has been as children, fancying that 
the miller inside was turning the arms of the windmill, 
because some person had so told them. So taught 
they would remain in total ignorance that the wind 
was the motive power. 

This illustration is not. at all an overdrawn pic¬ 
ture of the existing ignorance which rejects the idea 
that thought is an element all about us as plentiful as 
air, and that as blindly directed by individuals and 
masses of individuals in the domain of material mind 
or ignorance, it is turning the windmill’s arms, some¬ 
times in one direction, sometimes in another; some¬ 
times with good and sometimes with evil results. 

A suit of clothes is not the body that wears such 
suit. Yet the material mind reasons very much in this 
way. It knows of no such thing as clothing for the 
spirit, for it does not know that body and spirit are 
two distinct things. It reasons that the suit of cloth¬ 
ing (the body) is all there is of the man or woman. 
When that man or woman tumbles to pieces through 
weakness, it sees only the suit of clothes so going to 
pieces, and all its efforts to make that man or woman 
stronger are put on the suit instead of making effort 
to reinforce the power within which has made the suit. 

There are probably no two individuals precisely 
alike as regards the relative condition or action on 
them of their material and spiritual minds. With 
some the spiritual seems not at all awakened. With 
others it has begun to stretch and rub its eyes as a 
person does on his physical awakening, when every¬ 
thing still appears to him vague and indistinct. 
Others are more fully awakened. They feel to greater 
or lesser extent that there are forces belonging to them 
before unthought of. It is with such that the struggle 
for mastery between the material mind and spiritual 
mind is likely to be most severe, and such struggle for 
a time is likely to be accompanied by physical dis¬ 
turbance, pain or lack of ease. 


PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 75 


The material mind is, until won over and con¬ 
vinced of the truths, constantly received by the spir¬ 
itual mind at war and in opposition to it. The igno¬ 
rant part of yourself dislikes very much to give up 
its long accustomed habits of thinking. It costs a 
struggle in any case at first to own that we have been 
mistaken and give up views long held to. 

The material mind wants to move on in a rut of 
life and idea, as it always has done, and as thousands 
are now doing. It dislikes change more and more as 
the crust of the old thought held from year to year 
grows more thickly over it. It wants to live on and 
on in the house it has inhabited for years; dress in 
the fashion of the past; go to business and return 
year in and year out at precisely the same hour. It 
rejects and despises after a certain age the idea of 
learning any new accomplishments, such as painting 
or music, whose greatest use is to divert the mind, rest 
it, and enable you to live in other departments of be¬ 
ing, all this being apart from the pleasure also given 
you as the mind or spirit teaches the body more and 
more skill and expertness in the art you pursue. 

The material mind sees as the principal use of 
any art only a means to bring money, and not in such 
art a means for giving variety to life, dispelling wear¬ 
iness, resting that portion of the mind devoted to other 
business, improving health and increasing vigor of 
mind and body. 

It holds to the idea of being “too old to learn.” 

This is the condition of so many persons who have 
arrived at or past “middle age ” They want to set¬ 
tle down.” They accept as inevitable the idea of 
“growing old.” Their material mind tells them that 
their bodies must gradually weaken, shrink from the 
fullness and proportion of youth, decay and finally 
die. 


76 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


Material minds say this always has been, and 
therefore always must be. They accept the idea whol¬ 
ly. They say quite unconsciously, “It must be.” 

To say a thing must be, is the very power that 
makes it. The material mind then sees the body ever 
as gradually decaying, even though it dislikes the pic¬ 
ture, and puts it out of sight as much as possible. But 
the idea will recur from time to time as suggested by 
the death of their contemporaries, and as it does they 
think “must” and that state of mind indicated by the 
word “must” will inevitably bring material results in 
decay. 

The spiritual or more enlightened mind says: “If 
you would help to drive away sickness, turn your 
thought as much as you can on health, strength and 
vigor, and on strong, healthy, vigorous material things, 
such as moving clouds, fresh breezes, the cascade, the 
ocean surge; on woodland scenes and growing healthy 
trees; on birds full of life and motion;” for in so 
doing you turn on yourself a real current of this 
healthy, life-giving thought, which is suggested and 
brought you by the thought of such vigorous, strong 
material objects. 

And above all, try to rely on and trust that Su¬ 
preme Power which formed all these things and far 
more, and which is the endless and inexhaustible part 
of your higher self or spiritual mind, and as your 
faith increases in this Power, so will your own power 
ever increase. 

“Nonsense!” says the ultra material mind. “If 
my body is sick, I must have something done to cure 
that body with things I can see and feel, and that is 
the ONLY thing to be done. As for thinking, it 
makes no difference what I think, sick or well.” 

At present in such a case, a mind whose sense of 
these truths new to it, has just commenced to be 
awakened, will, in many cases, allow itself to be for a 
time overpowered and ridiculed out of such an idea 


PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 77 


by its own material mind or uneducated part of itself; 
and in this it is very likely to be assisted by other ma¬ 
terial minds, who have not wakened up at all to these 
truths, and who are temporarily all the stronger 
through the positiveness of ignorance. These are as 
people who cannot see as far ahead as one may with a 
telescope, and who may be perfectly honest in their 
disbelief regarding what the person with the telescope 
does see. Though such people do not speak a word or 
argue against the belief of the partly awakened mind, 
still their thought acts on such a mind as a bar or 
blind to these glimpses of the truth. 

But when the spiritual mind has once commenced 
to awaken, nothing can stop its further waking, 
though the material may for a time retard it. 

“Your real self may not at times be where your 
body is,” says the spiritual mind. It is where your 
mind is—in the store, the office, the workshop, or with 
some person to whom you are strongly attached, and 
all of these may be in towns or cities far from the one 
your body resides in. Your real self moves with in¬ 
conceivable rapidity as your thought moves. 

“Nonsense,” says your material mind; “1 myself 
am wherever my body is, and nowhere else.” 

Many a thought or idea that you reject as vision¬ 
ary, or as a whim or fancy, comes of the prompting 
of your spiritual mind. It is your material mind that 
rejects it. 

No such idea comes but that there is a truth in it. 
But that truth we may not be able to carry out to 
a relative perfection immediately. Two hundred years 
ago some mind may have seen the use of steam as a 
motive power. But that motive power could not then 
have been carried out as it is today. A certain pre¬ 
vious growth was necessary—a growth and improve¬ 
ment in the manufacture of iron, in the construction 
of roads, and in the needs of the people. 


78 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


But the idea was a truth. Held to by various 
minds, it has brought steam as a motive power to its 
present relative perfection. It has struggled against 
and overcome every argument and obstacle placed in 
its way by dull, material, plodding minds. 

When you entertain any idea and say to yourself 
in substance: “Well, such a thing may he, though I 
cannot now see it,” you remove a great barrier to the 
carrying out and realization by yourself of the new 
and strange possibilities in store for you. 

The spiritual mind today sees belonging to itself 
a power for accomplishing any and all results in the 
physical world, greater than the masses dream of. It 
sees that as regards life’s possibilities we are still in 
dense ignorance. It sees, however, a few things— 
namely, perfect health, freedom from decay, weakness 
and death of the body, power of transit,travel and ob¬ 
servation independent of the body, and methods for 
obtaining all needful and desirable material things 
through the action and working of silent mind or 
thought, either singly or in co-operation with others. 

The condition of the mind to be desired is the 
entire dominancy of the spiritual mind. But this does 
not imply dominancy or control in any sense of tyran¬ 
nical mastership of the material mind by the spiritual 
mind. It does not imply that the body will become 
the willing servant, or rather assistant of the spirit. 
It implies that the material mind will not endeavor to 
set itself up as the superior when it is only the infer¬ 
ior. It implies that state when the body will gladly 
lend its co-operation to all the desires of the spiritual 
mind. 

Then all power can be given your spirit. Then 
no force need be expended in resisting the hostility of 
the material mind. Then all such force will be used 
to further our undertakings, to bring us material 
goods, to raise us higher and higher into realms of 


PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 79 


power, peace and happiness, to accomplish what now 
would be called miracles. 

Neither the material mind nor the material body 
is to be won over and merged into the spiritual by any 
course of severe self-censure or self-denial, nor self¬ 
punishment in expiation for sins committed, nor ascet¬ 
icism. That will only make you the more harsh, severe, 
bigoted and merciless, both to yourself and others. 
It is out of this perversion of the truth that have 
arisen such terms as “crucifying the body” and “sub¬ 
jugating the lower or animal mind.” It is from this 
perversion that have come orders and associations of 
men and women who, going to another extreme, seek 
holiness in self-denial and penance. 

“Holiness” implies wholeness, or whole action of 
the spirit on the body, or perfect control by your spir¬ 
it over a body, through knowledge and faith in our 
capacity to draw ever more from the Supreme Power. 

When you get out of patience with yourself, 
through the aggressiveness of the material mind, 
through your frequent slips and falls into your beset¬ 
ting sins, through periods of petulance or ill-temper, 
or excess in any direction, you do no good, and only 
ill in calling or thinking for yourself hard names. 
You should not call yourself a “vile sinner” any more 
than you would call any other person a “vile sinnerS* 
If you do, you put out in thought the “vile sinner” 
and make it temporarily a reality. If in your mental 
vision you teach yourself that you are “utterly de¬ 
praved” and a “vile sinner ” you are unconsciously 
making that your ideal, and you will unconsciously 
grow up to it until the pain and evil coming of such 
unhealthy growth either makes you turn back or de¬ 
stroys your body. For out of this state of mind, which 
in the past has been much inculcated, comes harshness, 
bigotry, lack of charity for others, hard, stern and 
gloomy and unhealthy views of life, and these mental 
conditions will surely bring physical disease. 


80 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


When the material mind is put away, or, in other 
words, when we become convinced of the existence of 
these spiritual forces, both in ourselves and outside of 
ourselves, and when we learn to use them rightly (for 
we are now and always have been using them in some 
way), then to use the words of Paul: “Faith is swal¬ 
lowed up in victory,” and the sting and fear of death 
is removed. Life becomes then one glorious advance 
forward from the pleasure of today to the greater 
pleasure of tomorrow, and the phrase “to live” means 
only to enjoy. 

In the practice of Christian Psychology do not 
deny; AFFIRM. 

Be positive, not negative. To deny means simply 
to create something out of nothing. There is no evil, 
sickness, failure, why deny a thing that is NOT? 
Affirm the things that ARE. 

“Be not overcome of evil, hut overcome evil with 
Good.” 


Affirm: 

“I am my best self.” 

“I enjoy life. Spiritual Mind rules ” 

“I am spiritual, 1 am holy, 1 am wise.” 

Affirm each three times with alternating empha¬ 
sis on the words. 



II 

THE DRAWING POWER OF MIND 

W E ARE through our mental conditions always 
drawing things to us, good or bad, beneficial 
or injurious, pleasant or disagreeable. 

There is possible a state of mind which, 
if permanently kept, will draw to you money, lands, 
possessions, luxuries, health and happiness. It is a 
mental condition always serene, calm, determined, de¬ 
cided, self-composed, and bent on some purpose whose 
aim is lasting good, first to yourself, next to others. 

There is another state of mind which, if perma¬ 
nently kept in, will drive prosperity and health from 
you. 

It is only the very small part of what exists in 
the universe that can be seen, touched or otherwise 
made evident to the physical senses. 

The larger part of what exists and has form, 
shape and color, cannot be seen, felt or be otherwise 
made evident to the physical senses. 

What we call space is filled with realities. There 
is no such thing as “empty space” These realities 
might be evident to our spiritual or finer senses were 
they developed. As these finer senses are more and 
more opened, then more and more of these things or 
realities will become evident to us. 

Whatever you think you actually make. You are 
making these unseen realities continually as you think. 
If you think of anything for a second only you make 
that an unseen reality for a second. If you think of 


82 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


it for hours, days and years, you will in some way 
bring that reality to you in the physical world. 

If you keep an idea good or ill in your mind from 
month to month and year to year, you make it a more 
enduring, unseen reality, and as it so becomes stronger 
and stronger, it must at last take shape and appear 
in the seen and physical. 

Of whatever you think, you attract its like from 
the unseen current of realities. Think or dwell on 
any form of crime, and you attract and draw to you 
criminal realities from the unseen side of life. These, 
the unseen, are the forces for attracting to 3^011 ma¬ 
terial agencies for crime on our side of existence. 

When you read with interest in your morning’s 
paper of murders, burglaries, scandals and dreadful 
accidents on sea and land, you are attracting to you 
unseen things of the same character. You connect 
yourself with this, a lower order of spiritual realities, 
and being then in this current as you so read with 
interest, day after day, you are the more likely to 
bring some form of these horrors and miseries to 3 ^ou. 

These of the unseen form a current of real ele¬ 
ment in the unseen world of realities. You connect 
your spirit with this current when you keep these 
ghastly things so much in mind. That current then 
acts on you. You are borne along and carried by it. 
It will then all the quicker bring to you the elements 
of crime or evil. If you love to read of the acts of 
burglars and thieves, you are the more likely to have 
burglars and thieves about you and in your house. 
You and they will be brought together, because you 
and they are in the same current of thought. 

Neither you nor the thief is aware of the power 
which brings you together. But no power is so irre¬ 
sistible as one of whose action upon us and of whose 
very existence we are entirely ignorant. 


PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 83 


If you think but for ten seconds of something 
ghastly or horrible, something which causes pain of 
body or distress of mind to another, then you set in 
motion a force to draw some form of this trouble to 
you. If you think ten seconds of something pleasant, 
cheerful or beautiful—something which can give plea¬ 
sure to another, leaving no sting behind—then you set 
in motion a force to bring some of this pleasure to 
you. 

The longer you put your mind on any thing, be 
it evil or good, the stronger do you make it as an un¬ 
seen reality. It must at last, as you keep it in mind 
or put your mind on it, make itself in the seen and 
physical world an agency for pain or pleasure. 

The power to fix mind persistently on some 
definite purpose, or in a certain frame or mood—say 
that of calm determination, or to keep the mind free 
from being disturbed, is not now very common. 

Look at many people about you. On what from 
year to year is their thought or purpose fixed? On 
getting their wages at the week’s end. Beyond this 
nothing. On getting a new bonnet, a new dress, a 
pleasure trip. Beyond this nothing. On living from 
day to day, or week to week. Beyond this nothing. 
Many cannot fix their mind on any useful purpose 
for two days in succession. It is this thing earnestly 
desired today, something else tomorrow. 

Their mental forces pull a little while on this 
thing, abandon it, then pull a little while on the next 
whim or fancy and abandon that. There is no steady 
pull or exercise of drawing power on any one thing. 

These are the people who accomplish very little, 
who are always poor, and often in ill health. 

These minds where fixed at all are often on the 
useless, and injurious. They will read with avidity 
of horrors and hangings. The longer these are spun 
out and the more minute are they in detail, the more 


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they like them. They love the drama depicting vio¬ 
lence or emotional torture. A vast amount of their 
force goes in this direction. It is a force to draw to 
them some form of evil. If turned in another direction 
it would draw to them good. 

The unseen world and upper currents of unseen 
realities are full of bright and beautiful things—full 
of the spiritual correspondences of all luxuries, neces¬ 
sities and good things enjoyed here—full of beautiful 
things as yet here never seen and enjoyed. When 
minds here learn, as in time they will, to have faith 
in these existences, and faith in the simple means of 
attracting them, they will fix their thought persist¬ 
ently on the bright side of life. 

They will come to know that the longer they en¬ 
deavor so to fix it on the brighter and healthier side, 
the more power will they have, and the less effort will 
it cost to keep their thought in the right direction 
and in connection with the right current, until at last 
it will become “second nature” for them to live in 
these higher realities, and, as so living, health and 
prosperity will flow toward them. 

They will cease then to think so much and read 
so much, and talk and live so much in the crude, the 
horrible, the long-drawn recitals of crime, having 
learned that these thoughts bring them evil and injure 
their power for drawing to them that which will re¬ 
sult in permanent good. 

“Set your affections on things above.” This up¬ 
per current of thought contains the correspondence in 
unseen elements of all that is good for us to use and 
enjoy, and more still of joys we do not yet realize. 
These are the “things above.” 

Those of horror, ghastly crime, and misery on 
which now so much of people’s affections or thoughts 
are set, are “things below.” 

Evil of any sort is only to be thought of and 
dealt with long enough to remedy it. One remains in 


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a cesspool no longer than is necessary to bail out its 
contents. You want to get your cold, your pain, your 
last sprained ankle, or the last injustice done you by 
another out of your mind as soon as you can and 
not keep making it over and over again, through ever 
thinking it, brooding over it, and telling it to others 
whenever you get a chance. 

Such mood of mind may become habitual “second 
nature” and a power for drawing poverty and ill 
health. 

Constant contact with crime, or misery, with ill 
of any kind, or even the thought of it, will at last be¬ 
get an unnatural and unhealthy appetite for it. So 
at last people had rather at the breakfast table talk 
of sickness and death-bed scenes than of health, or of 
crime and horrors than of things cheerful, peaceable 
and pleasant. 

All such talk and thought dwelling in misery 
injures your power for drawing good things to you. 
It is a direct means for taking money from your purse 
and health from your body. 

Living ever in the thought of sickness will surely 
bring sickness to you. 

For such reason have those who made a study of 
insanity, gone themselves insane as did an eminent 
physician a few years ago. As did the superintend¬ 
ent of one of the largest insane asylums in this coun¬ 
try. As do very, very many of whom we never hear. 

The vast amount of matter printed and read by 
millions concerning the diseases and death of such 
prominent persons as General Grant, the late Em¬ 
peror Frederick, and some others, have put millions 
of minds more or less in the thought current of sick¬ 
ness, pain and misery. 

You will be the more healthy for living as much 
as you can in the thought and also surrounding of 
healthy things. You will be the stronger for living in 
the thought and being in the physical surrounding 


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of strong things—strong animals—strong and vigor* 
ous men and women. A circus with its skilled riders, 
its acrobats and tumblers, and its audience with care 
for a time off their minds and smiles on their faces, 
is a far healthier place, and connects one with a health¬ 
ier thought current than a dissecting room or the por¬ 
ing over a book devoted to the recital of any form of 
suffering or disease. 

What we call the drawing power of mind is not 
that of longing for things. Longing implies impa¬ 
tience, because they do not come as soon as we desire. 
The impatient state of mind will either drive what you 
desire from you or delay its advance. When your 
thought takes this form, “1 want the thing desired 
now—right now; Vm tired of waiting; I can y t stand 
waiting any longer; Vm sick and tired of waiting/ * 
you are in the wrong mood. 

You are then using your force in scolding or 
grieving or finding fault, because what you desire does 
not come. When you scold or complain or grieve, be¬ 
cause the things you desire do not come, your force 
is set upon that scolding or grieving, and is not work¬ 
ing to bring your desires to you. It is analogous to 
the man who, in a fit of rage, should tear his wagon 
to pieces, because it stuck in the mire. 

The force he used to tear it to pieces might have 
drawn it out. 

The force of mind you need to put out to draw 
good things to you lies in that mood, which says, con¬ 
tinually and calmly: “I must have these things; I 
am going to have them, provided that a Wisdom great¬ 
er than mine sees that it will not work me injury to 
have them.” It must be a mental state of serenity 
and determination decided and positive, but never 
angered or impatient, or anxious or worrying. 

So that you keep your mind in the proper draw¬ 
ing mood, you need not have in mind continually the 
thing you desire. It is the state of mind that draws 


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money, and things desirable, and not the constant 
recollection of the special thing desired. 

When you can put your mind in this mood and 
keep it there, when for instance you say to yourself 
calmly and deliberately “I am going to travel and see 
the world abroad” you can forget for a time that spe¬ 
cial purpose, and employ and enjoy yourself in the 
other efforts, without retarding at all the power which 
will be working to send you abroad. The same rule 
applies to business or any other special thing you have 
in mind and which you desire. 

You need only as your determination to travel 
or any other aim recurs to your mind, have the mood 
of calm unruffled determination and decision con¬ 
nected with it. 

You lessen this drawing power for good when 
you get angry or irritable; you increase it then for 
evil. You lessen it for good through becoming dis¬ 
couraged or despondent. You set it then in the wrong 
way and for evil. You lessen it for good through hur¬ 
ried states of mind. 

To covet the property of others,—to cumber the 
mind with schemes to get property through inheri¬ 
tance of another—to feel anxiety, envy, and jealousy 
of others who may share in such property or who may 
seem likely to get the whole of it— to set longing and 
envious eyes on another’s lands, houses, carriages, 
horses, automobiles, and other evidences of material 
wealth—to commence calculating on being brought 
into any degree of association with a rich man or 
woman, and how you may gain or wheedle, or so be¬ 
come a favorite of such person as to induce him or her 
to give you of their wealth, all this brings on a state 
of retarding your connection with the great drawing 
power. It brings to you a current of low, groveling 
and narrow thought. It is loss also to allow yourself 


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to drift into the petty prejudices of people concern¬ 
ing others—to take sides even in thought in petty 
quarrels. 

You lose power by engaging with others in any 
conversation on a plane of motive and sentiment lower 
than your own, such as tattle, sarcastic remark on the 
failings of others, fault finding with affairs which do 
not concern you, and unwarrantable inquiry and fer¬ 
reting out others’ private affairs. 

You put out in so doing thought forces which are 
opposed to and will destroy or retard the effect of 
your higher and more powerful attitude of mind to¬ 
ward all mankind—an outflow of thought which deals 
only with the best in others; sees as little as possible 
concerning them, and sends out in thought only good 
will toward them from which you will fight off every 
shade of malice, envy and jealousy—thoughts that 
are constructive instead of destructive and that build 
up rather than destroy. 

You want power to gain the greatest wealth, the 
highest health, the most pronounced success in busi¬ 
ness, and the growth of your spirit into possibilities 
not now realized. Nothing so weakens you in every 
way as descending in thought and talk to ill-natured 
and ferreting gossip. You descend then to the world 
of failure and ill health. You clothe yourself then in 
an actual thought-robe or envelope of weakness— the 
robes now worn by so many, who ascribe their ill 
health or non-success to any and everything but this, 
the real cause. 

Keep away as much as possible from despondent, 
reckless and purposeless people, and you will keep 
your drawing power at its best. You will then not 
lessen it through adulteration by absorption of their 
discouraged, undecided, purposeless thoughts. 

Speak of your purpose only to those of whose 
friendship you are sure—only to those who are not 
envious and who really wish you to have your desire. 


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Keeping your secrets adds vastly to your drawing 
powers. Walls do have ears. In other words, secrets 
can get into the air if you talk them out, even when 
none with a physical body are near you. If you want 
to keep a secret from others, keep it as much as pos¬ 
sible out of your own mind, save when it is absolutely 
necessary to recall it. There is a psychological neces¬ 
sity for it, for you can and do transfer your thoughts. 

All great success depends on secrecy or, con¬ 
servatism. Keep your secrets from all save those you 
can trust, who are in sympathy with you and your en¬ 
terprise. Do not talk to those who are or may be jeal¬ 
ous of you. It will weaken your power so to do. Thus 
you do literally give yourself (that is, your thoughts 
or force) away. 

Temperance and moderation in the use of all 
things, and in the play of all emotion is very necessary 
to the attainment of the most powerful drawing frame 
of mind. But asceticism, and extreme self-denial in 
anything only weakens and lessens this drawing pow¬ 
er. For all asceticism creates unnatural longings. 
Then the force of mind is placed on what nature is 
starved of and will long for, and sets its thought or 
force upon. 

Of anything that annoys you, make up your mind 
that it shall NOT annoy you. This decision will in¬ 
crease the drawing power of your mind. But if in 
mind you give way to annoyances and do not resist 
them, you increase their pow r er to annoy you. You 
bring on by this mental condition more and more an¬ 
noyances. Y r ou lessen also your force for drawing 
things to you. Or, in other words, you use that same 
force to draw annoying things to you. 

Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 

A disagreeable habit in another person, an im¬ 
pertinence or rudeness in another, a creaking door, 
anything in the workings of the physical world about 
us, if we do not set our minds against its annoyances, 


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will grow more and more upon us. It will master us. 
All these things represent the devil we are to resist. 

Turn your mind against the annoyance; preserve 
a calm, poiseful attitude and you will rule and control 
the annoyances; otherwise they will rule you. 

I do not mean to say that any mental attitude can 
be easily changed. It takes time and patience and 
will, but it can be done and must be done if you wish 
to rule yourself and others. 

How then can it be changed? 

By not trying too hard to change it. By not be¬ 
coming impatient on finding yourself unconsciously 
reverting to the state of mind you wish to get rid of. 
For impatience at anything is force employed in an¬ 
ger, because matters do not change as quickly as you 
wish, and that is so much force lost to your drawing 
power. You can in this way hurt yourself as much 
when the motive is good as when it is bad. 

And do not worry about it. Worry is a tremen¬ 
dous weakening force. It robs the mind of efficiency 
and produces no good results. In fact, it drives suc¬ 
cess away. And it is so foolish. Analyzed it is noth¬ 
ing more or less than despondency because you can 
not have your own way. And perhaps you may not 
even know what you want. Don’t worry. 

It will increase your drawing power to FEEL 
the real need of the thing you set your mind upon. 
There is great difference between wanting things 
and needing things. Some people want everything 
they set their eyes on, and worry if they cannot get 
them, when they need but few of these things at a 
time. You may need warm garments for winter. You 
may want things which may have no use during win¬ 
ter. You increase your force for drawing things to 
you if you desire the things you need, and not dissi¬ 
pate your forces in desiring indefinitely, without re¬ 
gard to your needs, many other things. What you 


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need not is waste and you waste your forces by the 
suggestion of waste. 

Then speak in the right way to draw things to 
you. There are two ways of saying “I must have the 
things desired.” To say “I must” or “1 demand it” 
in the mood of ugliness or irascibility carries little or 
no power to bring the thing demanded. A silent de¬ 
mand is a prayer, and your expressed wish is as a 
prayer going to the source ox All Supplies. A great 
drawing power is set upon the thing demanded when 
you say firmly but prayerfully— “I demand this spe¬ 
cial thing because 1 need it; because it is right I should 
have it; because I feel that my ability to benefit first, 
myself, and next others, will be increased by it.” 

That is the mood to be permanently maintained 
from month to month and year to year, until at last 
it becomes a part of yourself and you carry such a 
frame of mind whether conscious that you carry it 
or not. 

Your subconscious mind—or spiritual mind—acts 
automatically and always, and the suggestion which 
becomes a part of yourself will be constantly working 
out for you the thing you most desire. 

If you feel that there is truth in my assertions, 
then the seed of conviction is sown in your mind. 
That seed, that idea, that force will do the work for 
you. You need in a sense do but little. That truth 
will take deeper and deeper root. It will grow and in¬ 
crease ; you will find yourself gradually changing for 
the better. You will have less and less inclination to 
live in the grim and ghastly as you realize how much 
brighter the sun is than the gloom. Better still, you 
will turn away from lower life more and more as you 
find yourself and your power to control your destiny. 

And when you acquire this power, or in other 
words get your drawing force turned in the right di¬ 
rection, you will know it is all yours. In fact, it is 


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always working in the right direction, but your atti¬ 
tude may retard its onward and upward progress. 
And when you get it, no one can take it from you. 
It must always be on the increase; as it increases its 
force, it is increasing forever. 

When it is working in the right direction and 
you know it, and it is bringing you health, fortune 
and success in all you undertake, you depend on no 
one but yourself and the Supreme Power. You lean 
on no one. You will feel that you have the Power 
within to accomplish all you undertake. 

Permanent peace and tranquillity of mind is the 
proof that this power is working in the right direction. 

Can all attain to this drawing power? 

Yes: all who have Faith in themselves, and in the 
Supreme Power and conform to the laws of Truth, 
Honor and Justice. 

Affirm: 

“I am a magnet for the abundant supply of the 
spirit.” 

“1 am a magnet for the never-failing health of 
the spirit.” 

“1 am a magnet to attract success and a power 
to radiate prosperity.” 

Affirm each three times with alternating empha¬ 
sis on the words. 


Ill 

THE ART OF FORGETTING 

I N PSYCHOLOGY thought is recognized as sub¬ 
stance as much as the acids, oxides, and all other 
chemicals of today. 

There is no chasm betwixt what we call the 
material and spiritual. Both are of substance or ele¬ 
ment. They blend imperceptibly into each other. In 
reality the material is only a visible form of the finer 
elements we call spiritual. 

Our unseen and unspoken thought is ever flowing 
from us an element and force, as real as the stream 
of water we can see, or the current of electricity we 
cannot see. It combines with the thought of others, 
and out of such combinations new qualities of thought 
are formed, as in the combination of chemicals new 
substances are formed. 

If you send from you in thought the elements of 
worry, fret, hatred, or grief, you are putting in action 
forces injurious to your mind and body. The power 
to forget implies the power of driving away the un¬ 
pleasant and hurtful thought or element and bringing 
in its place the profitable element, to build up instead 
of tearing down. 

The character of thought we think or put out, af¬ 
fects our business favorably or unfavorably. It in¬ 
fluences others for or against us. It is an element felt 
pleasantly or unpleasantly by others, inspiring them 
with confidence or distrust. 


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The prevailing state of mind, or character of 
thought, shapes the body and features. It makes us 
ugly or pleasing, attractive or repulsive to others. 
Our thought shapes our gestures, our mannerisms, our 
walk. The least movement of muscle has a mood of 
mind, a thought, behind it. A mind always deter¬ 
mined has always a determined walk. A mind always 
weak, shifting, vacillating, and uncertain, makes a 
shuffling, shambling, uncertain gait. The spirit of 
determination braces every muscle. It is the thought 
element of determination filling every muscle. 

Look at the discontented, gloomy, melancholy, and 
ill-tempered men or women, and you see in their faces 
proofs of the action of this silent force of their un¬ 
pleasant thought, cutting, carving, and shaping them 
to their present expression. Such people are never in 
good health, for that force acts on them as poison, and 
creates some form of disease. A persistent thought of 
determination on a purpose, especially if such purpose 
be of benefit to others as well as ourselves, will fill 
every nerve with strength. It is a wise selfishness that 
works to benefit others along with ourselves. Because 
in spirit, and in actual element, we are all united. We 
are forces which act and react on each other, for good 
or ill,through what ignorantly we call “empty space.” 
There are unseen nerves extending from man to man, 
from being to being. Every form of life is in this 
sense connected together. We are all “members of one 
body.” An evil thought or act is a pulsation of pain 
thrilling through myriads of organizations. The 
kindly thought and act have for pleasure the same ef¬ 
fect. It is, then, a law of nature and of science, that 
we cannot do a real good to another without doing one 
also to ourselves. 

To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, 
weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend 
grieved for. It is rather an injury; for our sad 
thought must reach the person, even if passed to an- 


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other condition of existence, and is a source of pain 
to that person. 

An hour of grumbling, fret, or fear, whether 
spoken or silent, uses up so much element or force in 
making us less endurable to others, and perhaps mak¬ 
ing for us enemies. Directly or indirectly, it injures 
our business. Sour looks and words drive away good 
customers. Grumbling or hating is a use of actual 
element to belabor our minds. The force we may so 
expend could be used to our pleasure and profit, even 
as the force we might use with a club to beat our own 
body can be employed to give us comfort and recre¬ 
ation. 

To be able, then, to throw off (or forget) a 
thought or force which is injuring us, is a most im¬ 
portant means for gaining strength of body and clear¬ 
ness of mind. Strength of body and clearness of mind 
bring success in all undertakings. 

It brings also strength of spirit; and the forces 
of our spirits act on others whose bodies are thousands 
of miles distant, for our advantage or disadvantage. 
Because there is a force belonging to all of us, sepa¬ 
rate and apart from that of the body. It is always in 
action, and acting on others. It must be in action 
every moment, whether the body be asleep or awake. 
Ignorantly, unconsciously, and hence unwisely used, 
it plunges us into mires of misery and error. Intelli¬ 
gently and wisely used, it will bring us every conceiv¬ 
able good. 

That force is our thought. Every thought of ours 
is of vital importance to health and real success. All 
so-called success, as the world terms it, is not real. A 
fortune gained at the cost of health is not a real 
success. Every mind trains itself, generally uncon- 
consciously, to its peculiar character or quality of 
thought. Whatever that training is, it cannot be im¬ 
mediately changed. We may have trained our minds 
unconsciously to entertain evil or troubled thought. 


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We may never have realized that brooding over disap¬ 
pointment, living in grief, dreading a loss, fretting for 
fear this or that might not succeed as we wish, was 
building up a destructive force which has bled away 
our strength, created disease, unfitted us for business, 
and caused us loss of money and possibly loss of 
friends 

To learn to forget is as necessary and useful as 
to learn to remember. We think of many things every 
day which it would be more profitable not to think 
of at all. To be able to forget is to be able to drive 
away the unseen force (thought) which is injuring us, 
and change it for a force (or order of thought) to 
benefit us. 

Demand imperiously and persistently any quality 
of character in which you may be lacking, and you at¬ 
tract increase of such quality. Demand more patience, 
or decision, or judgment, or courage, or hopefulness, 
or exactness, and you will increase in such qualities. 
These qualities are real elements. They belong to the 
subtler, and as yet unrecognized, chemistry of nature. 

The man discouraged, and hopeless, and whining, 
has unconsciously demanded discouragement and 
hopelessness. So he gets it. This is his unconscious 
mental training to evil. Mind is “magnetic,” because 
it attracts to itself whatever thought it fixes itself 
upon, or whatever it opens itself to. Allow yourself 
to fear, and you will fear more and more. Cease to 
resist the tendency to fear, make no effort to forget 
fear, and you open the door, and invite fear in; you 
then demand fear. Set your mind on the thought of 
courage; set yourself in mind on the thought of cour¬ 
age; see yourself in mind or imagination as cour¬ 
ageous, and you will become more courageous. You 
demand courage. 

There is no limit in unseen nature to the supply 
of these spiritual qualities. In the words “Ask, and 
ye shall receive,” the Christ implied that any mind 


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could, through demanding, draw to itself all that it 
needed of any quality. Demand wisely, and we draw 
to us the best. 

Every second of wise demand brings an increase 
of power. Such increase is never lost to us. This is 
an effort for lasting gain that we can use at any time. 
What all of us want is more power to work results, 
and build up our fortunes,—power to make things 
about us more comfortable for ourselves and our 
friends. We cannot feed others if we have no power 
to keep starvation from ourselves. Power to do this is 
a different thing from the power to hold in memory 
other people’s opinions, or a collection of so-called 
facts gathered from books, which time often proves 
to be fictitious. Every success in any grade of life 
has been accomplished through spiritual power, 
through unseen force flowing from one mind, and 
working on other minds far and near, as real as the 
force in your arm lifts a stone. 

A man may be illiterate, yet send from his mind 
a force affecting and influencing many others, far and 
near, in a way to benefit his fortunes, while the schol¬ 
arly man drudges with his brain on a pittance. The 
illiterate man’s is the greater spiritual power. Intel¬ 
lect is not a bag to hold facts. Intellect is power to 
work results. Writing books is but a fragment of the 
work of intellect. The greatest philosophers have 
planned first, and acted afterwards, as did Columbus, 
Napoleon, Fulton, Morse, Edison, and others, who 
have moved the world, besides telling the world how 
it should be moved. 

Your plan, purpose, or design, whether relating 
to a business or an invention, is a real construction of 
unseen thought element. Such thought structure is 
also a magnet. It commences to draw aiding forces 
to it so soon as made. Persist in holding to your plan 
or purpose, and these forces come nearer and nearer, 


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become stronger and stronger, and will bring more 
and more favorable results. 

Abandon your purpose, and you stop further ap¬ 
proach of these forces, and destroy also such amount 
of unseen attracting power as you have built up. 
Success in any business depends on the application 
of this law. Persistent resolve on any purpose is a 
real attractive force or element, drawing constantly 
more and more aids for carrying out that resolve. 

When your body is in the state called sleep, these 
forces (your thoughts) are still active. They are then 
working on other minds. If your last thought before 
sleep is that of worry, or anxiety, or hatred for any 
one, it will work for you only ill results. If it is 
hopeful, cheerful, confident, and at peace with all 
men, it is then the stronger force, and will work for 
you good results. If the sun goes down on your 
wrath, your wrathful thought will act on others, while 
you sleep, and bring only injury in return. 

Is it not a necessity, then, to cultivate the power 
of forgetting what we wish, so that our current of 
thought attracting ill, while our body rests, shall be 
changed to the thought-current attracting good? 

Today thousands on thousands never think of 
controlling the character of their thought. They allow 
their minds to drift. They never say of a thought 
that is troubling them, “I won’t think of it.” Un¬ 
consciously then they demand what works them ill, 
and their bodies are made sick by the kind of thought 
which they allow their minds to fasten on. 

When you realize the injury done you through 
any kind of troubled thought, you will then com¬ 
mence to acquire the power of throwing off such 
thought. When in mind you commence to resist any 
kind of such injurious thought, you are constantly 
gaining more and more power for resistance. “Resist 
the devil,” said James, “and he will flee from you.” 
There are no devils save the illy used forces of the 


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mind. But these are most powerful to afflict and tor¬ 
ture us. An ugly or melancholy mood of mind is a 
devil. It can make us sick, lose us friends, and lose 
us money. Money means the enjoyment of necessities 
and comforts. Without these we cannot do or be our 
best. The sin involved in “love of money” is to love 
money better than the things needful which money 
can bring. 

To bring to us the greatest success in any busi¬ 
ness, to make the greatest advance in any art, to 
further any cause, it is absolutely necessary that at 
certain intervals daily we forget all about that busi¬ 
ness, art, or cause. By so doing we rest our minds 
and gather fresh force for renewed effort. 

To be ever revolving the same plan, study, or 
speculation, or what we shall do or shall not do, is to 
waste such force on a brain treadmill. We are in 
thought saying to ourselves the same thing over and 
over again. We are building of this actual, unseen 
element, thought, the same constructions over and 
over again. One is a useless duplicate of the other. 

If we are inclined to think or converse on one 
particular subject, if we will never forget it, if we 
will start it at all times and places, if we will not in 
thought and speech fall into the prevailing tone of 
the conversation about us, if we do not try to get up 
an interest in what is being talked of by others, if we 
determine only to converse on what interests us, or 
not converse at all, we are in danger of becoming a 
“crank,” or “hobbyist,” or monomaniac. 

The “crank” draws his reputation on himself. 
He is one who, having forced one idea, and one alone 
on himself, has resolved, perhaps unconsciously, to 
force that idea on every one else. He will not for¬ 
get at periods his pet theory or purpose, and adapt 
himself to the thought of others. For this reason 
he loses the power to forget, to throw from his mind 
the one absorbing thought. He drifts more and more 


100 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


into that one idea. He surrounds himself with its 
peculiar thought, atmosphere, or element, as real an 
element as any we see or feel. 

Others near him feel this one-ideaed thought, 
and feel it disagreeably; because the thought of one 
person is felt by others near him through a sense as yet 
unnamed. In the exercise of this sense lies the secret 
of your favorable or unfavorable “impressions” of 
people at first sight. You are in thought as it flows 
from you always, sending into the air an element 
which affects others for or against you, according to 
its quality, and the acuteness of their sense which feels 
thought. You are affected by the thought of others in 
the same way, be they far or near. Hence we are 
talking to others when our tongues are still. We are 
making ourselves hated or loved while we sit alone in 
the privacy of our chambers. 

A crank often becomes a martyr, or thinks him¬ 
self one. There is no absolute necessity for martyr¬ 
dom in any cause, save the necessity of ignorance. 
There never was any absolute necessity, save for the 
same cause. Martyrdom always implies lack of judg¬ 
ment and tact in the presentation of any principle 
new to the world. Analyze martyrdom, and you will 
find in the martyr a determination to force on peo¬ 
ple some idea in an offensive and antagonistic form. 
People of great ability, through dwelling on one idea, 
have at last been captured by it. The antagonism they 
drew from others, they drew because they held it first 
in their own mind. “I come not with peace,” said 
the Christ, “but a sword.” The time has now come in 
the world’s • history for the sword to be sheathed. 
Many good people unconsciously use swords in advis¬ 
ing what they deem better things. There is the sword 
(in thought) of the scolding reformer, the sword of 
dislike for others because they won’t heed what you 
say, and the sword of prejudice because others won’t 
adopt your peculiar habits. Every discordant thought 


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against others is a sword, and calls out from others 
a sword in return. The thought you put out, you 
receive back of the same kind. The coming empire of 
peace is to be built up by reconciling differences, 
making of enemies friends, telling people of the good 
that is in them rather than the bad, discouraging gos¬ 
sip and evil speaking by the introduction oi subjects 
more pleasant and profitable, and proving through 
one’s life that there are laws, not generally recog¬ 
nized, which will give health, happiness, and for¬ 
tune, without injustice or injury to others. Their ad¬ 
vocate will meet the sick with the smile of true friend¬ 
ship, and the most diseased people are always the 
greatest sinners. The most repulsive man or woman, 
the creature full of deceit, treachery, and venom, 
needs your pity and help of all the most, for that man 
or woman, through generating evil thought, is generat¬ 
ing pain and disease for himself or herself. 

You find yourself thinking of a person unpleas¬ 
antly from whom you have received a slight or in¬ 
sult, an injury or injustice. Such thought remains 
with you hour after hour, perhaps day after day. You 
become at last tired of it, yet cannot throw it off. It 
annoys, worries, frets, sickens you. You cannot pre¬ 
vent yourself from going round and round on this 
same tiresome, troublesome track of thought. It 
wears on your spirit; and whatever wears on the spirit, 
wears on the body. 

This is because you have drawn on yourself the 
other person’s opposing and hostile thought. He is 
thinking of you as you are of him. He is sending you 
a w'ave of hostile thought. You are both giving and 
receiving blows of unseen elements. You may keep up 
this silent war of unseen force for weeks, and if so, 
both are injured. This contest of opposing wills and 
forces is going on all about us. The air is full of it. 

To strive, then, to forget enemies, or to throw out 
to them only friendly thought, is as much an act of 


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self-protection as it is to put up your hands to ward 
off a physical blow. The persistent thought of friend¬ 
liness turns aside thought of ill-will, and renders it 
harmless. The injunction of Christ to do good to your 
enemies is founded on a natural law. It is saying that 
the thought or element of good will carries the great¬ 
er power, and will always turn aside and prevent in¬ 
jury from the thought of ill will. 

Demand forgetfulness when you can only think 
of a person or of anything with the pain that comes 
of grief, anger, or any cause. Demand is a state 
of mind which sets in motion forces to bring you the 
result desired. Demand is the scientific basis of prayer. 
Do not supplicate. Demand persistently your share of 
force out of the elements about you, by which you 
can rule your mind to any desired mood. 

There are no limits to the strength to be gained 
through the cultivation of our thought-power. It can 
keep us from all pain arising from grief, from loss of 
fortune, loss of friends, and disagreeable situations in 
life. Such power is the very element or attitude of 
mind most favorable to the gain of fortune and friends. 
The stronger mind throws off the burdensome, weary¬ 
ing, fretting thought, forgets it, and interests itself in 
something else. The weaker mind dwells in the fret¬ 
ting, worrying thought, and is enslaved by it. When 
you fear a misfortune (which may never happen), 
your body becomes weak; your energy is paralyzed. 
But you can, through constantly demanding it, dig 
out of yourself a power which can throw off any fear 
or troublesome state of mind. Such power is the high 
road to success. Demand it, and it will increase more 
and more, until at last you will know no fear. A 
fearless man or woman can accomplish wonders. 

That no individual may have gained such amount 
of this power, is no proof that it cannot be gained. 
Newer and more wonderful things are ever happening 
in the world. Fifty years ago, and he who should 


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assert that a human voice could be heard between New 
York and Philadelphia, would have been called a luna¬ 
tic. Today, the wonder of the telephone is an every¬ 
day affair. The powers still unrecognized of our 
thought will make the telephone a tame affair. Men 
and women, through cultivation and use of this power, 
are to do wonders which fiction has not or dares not 
put before the world. 

Affirm: 

“I am Strength.” 

“I am Love.” 

“1 am Power.” 

“I am Joy.” 

“I am Success.” 

Affirm each three times with alternating em¬ 
phasis on the words. 


IV 

THE GOD IN YOURSELF. 

A S a spirit, you are a part of God or the In¬ 
finite Force or Spirit of good. As such part, 
you are an ever-growing power which can 
never lessen, and must always increase, even as it 
has in the past through many ages always increased, 
and built you up, as to intelligence, to your pres¬ 
ent mental stature. The power of your mind has been 
growing to its present quality and clearness through 
many more physical lives than the one you are now 
living. Through each past life you have unconscious¬ 
ly added to its power. Every struggle of the mind—* 
be it struggle against pain, struggle against appetite, 
struggle for more skill in the doing of anything, 
struggle for greater advance in any art or calling, 
struggle and dissatisfaction at your failings and de¬ 
fects—is an actual pushing of the spirit to greater 
power, and a greater relative completion of your¬ 
self—and with such completion, happiness. For the 
aim of living is happiness. 

There is today more of you, and more of every 
desirable mental quality belonging to you, than ever 
before. The very dissatisfaction and discontent you 
may feel concerning your failings is a proof of this. 
If your mind was not as clear as it is, it could not see 
those failings. You are not now where you may have 
been in a mood of self-complacency, when you thought 
yourself about right in every respect. Only you may, 
now, in looking at yourself, have swung too far in 


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the opposite direction; and, because your eyes have 
been suddenly opened to certain faults, you may think 
these faults to be constantly increasing. They are 
not. The God in yourself—the ever-growing power 
in yourself—has made you see an incompleteness in 
your character; yet that incompleteness was never so 
near a relative completion as now. Of this the great¬ 
est proof is, that you can now see what in yourself you 
never saw or felt before. 

You may have under your house a cavity full of 
vermin and bad air. You were much worse off be¬ 
fore the cavity was found, you may be sure it will be 
cleansed. There may be cavities in our mental archi¬ 
tecture abounding in evil element, and there is no need 
to be discouraged as the God in ourself shows them to 
us. There is no need of saying, “Vm such am imper¬ 
fect creature Pm sure I can never cure all my faults 
Yes, you can. You are curing them now. Every pro¬ 
test of your mind against your fault is a push of the 
spirit forward. Only you must not expect to cure them 
all in an hour, a day, a week, or a year. There will 
never be a time in your future existence, but that you 
can see where you can improve yourself. If you see 
possibility of improvement, you must, of course, see 
the defect to be improved. Or, in other words, you 
see for yourself a still greater completion, a still great¬ 
er elaboration, a finer and finer shading of your char¬ 
acter, a more and more complicated distribution of the 
Force always coming to you. So you will cease this 
fretting over your being such an imperfect creature 
when you find, as you will, that you are one of the 
“temples of God” ever being built by yourself into 
ever-increasing splendor. 

No talent of yours ever stops growing, no more 
than the tree stops growing in winter. If you are 
learning to paint or draw or act or speak in public 
or do anything, and cease your practice entirely for 
a month or a year or two years, and then take it up 


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again, you will find after a little that an increase 
of that talent has come; that you have new ideas con¬ 
cerning it, and new power for execution. 

You ask, “What is the aim of life?” In a sense, 
you cannot aim your own life. There is a destiny that 
aims it—a law which governs and carries it. To 
what? To an ever-increasing and illimitable capacity 
for happiness as your power increases, and increase it 
must. You cannot stop growing, despite all appear¬ 
ances to the contrary. The pain you have suffered 
has been through that same growth of the spirit press¬ 
ing you harder and harder against what caused you 
misery, so that at last you should take that pain as 
a proof that you were on some wrong path, out of 
which you must get as soon as possible; and when you 
cry out hard, and are in living earnest to know the 
right way, something will always come to tell you the 
right way; for it is a law of nature that every ear¬ 
nest call is answered, and an earnest demand or prayer 
for anything always brings the needed supply. 

What is the aim of life ? To get the most happi¬ 
ness out of it; to so learn to live that every coming day 
will be looked for in the assurance that it will be as 
full, and even fuller, of pleasure than the day we now 
live in; to banish even the recollection that time can 
hang heavily on our hands; to be thankful that we live ; 
to rise superior to sickness or pain; to command the 
body, through the power of the spirit, so that it can 
feel no pain; to control and command the thought so 
that it shall ever increase in power to work and act 
separate, apart, and afar from our body, so that it shall 
bring us all that we need of house or land or food or 
clothes, and that without robbing or doing injustice to 
any one; to gain in power so that the spirit shall ever 
recuperate, reinvigorate and rejuvenate the body so 
long as we desire to use it, so that no part or organ 
shall weaken, wither, or decay; to be learning ever 
new sources of amusement for ourselves and others; 


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to make ourselves so full of happiness and use for 
others that our presence may ever be welcome to them; 
to be no one’s enemy and every one’s friend,—that is 
the destiny of life in those domains of existence where 
people as real as we, and much more alive than we, have 
learned, and are ever learning, how to get the most of 
heaven out of life. That is the inevitable destiny of 
every individual spirit. You cannot escape ultimate 
happiness and permanent happiness as you grow on 
and on in this and other existences; and all the pains 
you suffer, or have suffered, are as prods and pokes to 
keep you out of wrong paths,—to make you follow 
the law. And the more sensitive you grow, the more 
clearly will you see the law which leads away from all 
pain, and ever toward more happiness, and to a state 
of mind where it is such an ecstasy to live, that all 
sense of time is lost,—as the sense of time is lost with 
us when we are deeply interested or amused, or gaze 
upon a thrilling play or spectacle,—so that in the 
words of the biblical record, “a day shall be as a thou¬ 
sand years, and a thousand years as a day.” The 
Nirvana of the Hindoos suggests all the possibilities 
of life coming to our planet,— “Nirvana” implying 
that calmness, serenity, and confidence of mind which 
comes of the absolute certainty that every effort we 
make, every enterprise we undertake, must be success¬ 
ful; and that the happiness we realize this month is 
but the stepping-stone to the greater happiness of next. 
If you felt that the trip of foreign travel you now long 
for and wish for was as certain to come as now you 
are certain that the sun rose this morning; if you 
knew that you would achieve your own peculiar and 
individual proficiency and triumph in painting or ora¬ 
tory, or as an actor or sculptor, or in any art, as surely 
as now you know you can walk downstairs, you would 
not of course feel any uneasiness. In all our relatively 
perfected lives we shall know this, because we shall 


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know for an absolute certainty that when we concen¬ 
trate our mental force or thought on any plan or pur¬ 
suit or undertaking, we are setting at work the at¬ 
tractive force of thought-substance to draw to us the 
means or agencies or forces or individuals to carry out 
that plan, as certainly as the force of muscle applied 
to a line draws the ship to its pier. You worry very 
little now as to your telegram reaching its destination, 
because, while you know next to nothing as to what 
electricity is, you do know that when it is applied in a 
certain way it will carry your message; and you will 
have the same confidence that when your thought is 
regulated and directed by a certain method, it will do 
for you what you wish. Before men knew how to use 
electricity there was as much of it as today, and with 
the same power as today, but so far as our convenience 
was concerned, it was quite useless as a message-bearer, 
for lack of knowledge to direct it. The tremendous 
power of human thought is with us all today very 
much in a similar condition. It is wasted, because we 
do not know how to concentrate and direct it. It is 
worse than wasted, because, through ignorance and 
life-long habit, we work our mental batteries in the 
wrong direction, and send from us bolt after bolt of 
ill will toward others, or enviousness or snarls or 
sneers or some form of ugliness,—all this being real 
element wrongly or ignorantly applied, which may 
strike and hurt others, and will certainly hurt us. 

Here is the corner stone of all successful effort in 
this existence or any other. Never in thought acknowl¬ 
edge an impossibility. Never in mind reject what to 
you may seem the wildest idea with scorn; because, in 
so doing, you may not know what you are closing the 
door against. To say any thing is impossible because 
it seems impossible to you, is just so much training in 
the dangerous habit of calling out “Impossible!” to 
every new idea. Your mind is then a prison full of 


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doors, barred to all outside, and you the only in¬ 
mate. “All things” are possible with God. God works 
in and through you. To say “Impossible!” as to what 
you may do or become is a sin. It is denying God’s 
power to work through you. It is denying the power 
of the Infinite Spirit to do through you far more than 
what you are now capable of conceiving in mind. To 
say “Impossible!” is to set up your relatively weak 
limit of comprehension as the standard of the universe. 
It is as audacious as to attempt the measurement of 
endless space with a yardstick. 

When you say “Impossible!” and “I can’t ” you 
make a present impossibility for yourself. This 
thought of yours is the greatest hindrance to the pos¬ 
sible. It cannot stop it. You will be pushed on, hang 
back as much as you may. There can be no successful 
resistance to the eternal and constant betterment of 
all things (including yourself). 

You should say, “It impossible for me to become 
any thing which I admire You should say, “It is 
possible for me to become a writer , an orator, an actor , 
an artist.” You have then thrown open the door to> 
your own temple of art within you. So long as you 
said “Impossible!” you kept it closed. Your “1 
can’t” was the iron bolt locking that door against you. 
Your “I can” is the power shoving back that bolt. 

Christ’s spirit or thought had power to command 
the elements, and quiet the storm. Your spirit as a 
part of the great whole has in the germ, and waiting 
for fruition, the same power. Christ, through power 
of concentrating the unseen element of his thought, 
could turn that unseen element into the seen, and ma¬ 
terialize food,—loaves and fishes. That is a power in¬ 
herent in every spirit, and every spirit is growing to 
such power. You see today a healthy baby boy. It 
cannot lift a pound; but you know there lies in that 
feeble child the powers and possibilities which, twenty 


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years hence, may enable it to lift with ease two hun¬ 
dred pounds. So the greater power, the coming spir¬ 
itual power, can be foretold for us, who are now rel¬ 
atively babes spiritually. The reason for life being 
so unhappy here in this region of being is, that as we 
do not know the law, we go against it, and get thereby 
its pains instead of its pleasures. 

This law cannot be entirely learned by us out of 
past record or the past experience of any one, no mat¬ 
ter to what power they may have attained. Such 
records or lives may be very useful to us as suggesters. 
But while there are general principles that apply to 
all, there are also individual laws that apply to every 
separate and individualized person. You cannot fol¬ 
low directly in my track in making yourself happier 
and better, nor can I in yours; because every one of 
us is made up of a different combination of element, 
as element has entered into and formed our spirits 
(our real selves) through the growth and evolution of 
ages. You must study and find out for yourself what 
your nature requires to bring it permanent happiness. 
Y r ou are a book for yourself. You must open this book 
page after page, and chapter after chapter, as they 
come to you with the experience of each day, each 
month, each year, and read them. No one else can read 
them for you as you can for yourself. No one else can 
think exactly as you think, or feel just as you feel, or 
be affected just as you are affected by other forces or 
persons about you; and for this reason no other person 
can judge what you really need to make your life more 
complete, more perfect, more happy so well as yourself. 

You must find out for yourself what association 
is best for you, what food is best for you, and what 
method in any business, any art, any profession brings 
you the best results. You can be helped very much by 
conferring with others who are similarly interested. 
You can be very much helped by those who may have 
more knowledge than you of general laws. You can 


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be greatly helped to get force or courage or new ideas 
to carry out your undertakings, by meeting at regular 
intervals with earnest, sincere, and honest people who 
have also some definite purpose to accomplish, and 
talking yourself out to them, and they to you. But 
when you accept any man or any woman as an infal¬ 
lible guide or authority, and do exactly as they say, 
you are off the main track; because then you are mak¬ 
ing the experiments of another person, formed of a 
certain combination of elements or chemicals, and the 
result of that person’s experiments, the rule for your 
own individual combination of element, when your 
combination may be very different, and differently 
acted on by the elements outside of it. 

You have iron and copper and magnesia and 
phosphorus, and more of other minerals and chemi¬ 
cals, and combination and re-combination of mineral 
and chemical in your physical body, than earthly sci¬ 
ence has yet thought of. You have in your spirit or 
thought the unseen or spiritual correspondences of 
these minerals still finer and more subtle; and all 
these are differently combined, and in different pro¬ 
portions, than for any other physical or spiritual body. 
How, then, can any one find out the peculiar action - 
of this, your individual combination, save yourself? 

There are certain general laws; but every indi¬ 
vidual must apply the general law to him or herself. 
It is a general law that the wind will propel a ship. 
But every vessel does not use the air in exactly the 
same fashion. It is a general law that thought is 
force, and can effect, and is constantly effecting, re¬ 
sults to others far from our bodies; and the quality 
of our thought and its power to effect results depends 
very much on our associations. But for that reason, 
if yours is the superior thought or power, and I see 
that through its use you are moving ahead in the 
world, I should not choose your character of associates 
or your manner of life. I can try your methods as 


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experiments; but I must remember they are only ex¬ 
periments. I must avoid that so common error,—the 
error of slavish copy and idolatry of another. 

The Christ of Nazareth once bade certain of his 
followers not to worship him. “Call me not good,” 
said he. “There is none good save God alone.” 
Christ said, “I am the way and the life,” meaning, 
as the text interprets itself to me, that as to certain 
general laws of which he was aware, and by which he 
also as a spirit was governed, he knew and could give 
certain information. But he never did assert that his 
individual life, with all the human infirmity of defect 
that he had “taken upon him,” was to be strictly cop¬ 
ied. He did pray to the Infinite Spirit of Good for 
more strength, and deliverance from the SIN OF 
FEAR when his spirit quailed at the prospect of his 
crucifixion; and in so doing, he conceded that he, as 
a spirit (powerful as he was), needed help as much 
as any other spirit; and knowing this, he refused to 
pose himself before his followers as God, or the In¬ 
finite, but told them that when they desired to bow 
before that almighty and never-to-be-comprehended 
power, out of which comes every good at the prayer 
or demand of human mind, to worship God alone,— 
God, the eternal and unfathomable moving power of 
boundless universe; the power that no man has ever 
seen or ever will see, save as he sees its varying ex¬ 
pressions in sun, star, cloud, wind, bird, beast, flower, 
animal, or in man, or in man as the future angel or 
archangel, and ascending still to grades of mind and 
grades of power higher and higher still; but ever and 
ever looking to the source whence comes this power, 
and never, never worshipping any one form of such 
expression, and by so doing making the “creature 
greater than the Creator.” 

That power is today working on and in and 
through every man, woman, and child on this planet. 
Or, to use the biblical expression, it is “God working 


PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 113 


in us and through us.” We are all parts of the In¬ 
finite Power,—a power ever carrying us up to higher, 
finer, happier grades of being. 

Every man or woman, no matter what may be 
their manner of life or grade of intellect, is a strong¬ 
er and better man or woman than ever they were be¬ 
fore, despite all seeming contradiction. The desire 
in human nature, and all forms of nature or of spirit 
expressed through matter, to be more and more re¬ 
fined is, up to a certain growth of mind, an uncon¬ 
scious desire. The god Desire is at work on the low¬ 
est drunkard rolling in the gutter. That man’s spirit 
wants to get out of the gutter. It is at work on the 
greatest liar, prompting him, if ever so feebly, that 
the truth is better. It is at work on people you may 
call despicable and vile. When Christ was asked how 
often a man should be forgiven any offense, he replied 
in a manner indicating that there should be no limit 
to the sum of one man’s or woman’s forgiveness for 
the defects or immaturity in another. There should 
be no limit to the kind and helpful thought we think 
or put out toward another person who falls often, 
who is struggling with some unnatural appetite. It 
is a great evil, often done unconsciously, to say or. 
think of an intemperate man, “Oh, he f s gone to the 
dogs. It's no use doing any thing more for him!”' 
because, when we do this, we put hopeless, discourag¬ 
ing thought out in the air. It meets that person. He 
or she will .feel it; and it is to them an element retard¬ 
ing their progress out of the slough they are in, just 
as some person’s similar thought has retarded us in 
our effort to get out of some slough we were in or are 
in now,—slough of indecision; slough of despondence; 
slough of ill temper; slough of envious, hating 
thought. 

Yet the spirit of man becomes stronger for all 
it struggles against. It becomes the stronger for 
struggling against your censorious, uncharitable 


114 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


thought, until at last it carries a man or woman to a 
point where they may in thought say to others, “1 
would rather have your approbation than your cen¬ 
sure, for my most rigid judge and surest punishment 
for all the evil I do comes of my own mind,—the god 
or goddess in myself from whose judgment, from 
whose displeasure, there is no escaping. ” Yet as the 
spirit grows clearer and clearer in sight, so does that 
judge in ourselves become more and more merciful for 
its own errors; for it knows that, in a sense, as we 
refine from cruder to finer expression, there must be 
just so much evil to be contended against, fought 
against, and finally and inevitably overcome. Every 
man and woman is predestined to a certain amount 
of defect, until the spirit overcomes such defect; and 
overcome it must, for it is the nature of spirit to 
struggle against defect. It is the one thing impossible 
for man to take this quality out of his own spirit,— 
the quality of ever rising toward more power and 
happiness. 

If you make this an excuse to sin, or commit ex¬ 
cess, or lie or steal or murder, and say, “I can’t help 
it; I’m predestined to it,” you will be punished all 
the same, not possibly by man’s law, but by natural 
or divine law which has its own punishments for ev¬ 
ery possible sin,—for murder or lust or lying or steal¬ 
ing or evil thinking or gluttony ; and these punish¬ 
ments are being constantly inflicted, and today thou¬ 
sands upon thousands are suffering for the sins they 
commit in ignorance of the law of life; and the pain 
of such punishment has grown so great, and bears so 
heavily on so many, that there is now a greater desire 
than ever to know more of these laws; and for that 
very reason is this desire being met, and these ques¬ 
tions are being answered; for it is an inevitable law of 
nature that what the human mind demands, that it, 
in time, gets; and the greater the number of minds so 
demanding, the sooner is the demand met and the 


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questions answered. Steam but a few years ago rel¬ 
atively met the demand of human mind for greater 
speed in travel. Electricity met a demand for greater 
speed in sending intelligence from man to man. 
These are but as straws pointing to the discovery and 
use of greater powers, not only in elements outside of 
man, but in the unseen elements which make man and 
woman; in the elements unseen which make you and 
me. 


Henceforth our race will commence to be lifted 
out of evil or cruder forms of expression, not by fear 
of the punishments coming through violation of the 
law; but they will be led to the wiser course through 
love of the delight which comes of following the law 
as we discover it for ourselves. You eat moderately, 
because experience has taught that the greater pleas¬ 
ure comes of moderation. You are gentle, kind, and 
considerate to your friend, not that you have con¬ 
stantly before your mind the fear of losing that 
friend if you are not kind and considerate, but be¬ 
cause it pleases you, and you love the doing of kind 
acts. Human law, and even divine law as interpreted 
hy human understanding, have ever been saying in 
the past, “You must not do this or that, or you’ll feel 
the rod.” God has been pictured as a stern, merci¬ 
less, avenging deity. The burden of the preacher’s 
song has been Penalty and Punishment! Punishment 
and Penalty! Humanity is to forget all about pen¬ 
alty and punishment, because it is to be won over, and 
tempted to greater goodness, to purity and refine¬ 
ment by the ever increasing pleasures brought us as 
we refine. The warning of penalty was necessary 
when humanity was cruder. It could only be reached 
by the rod. The race was blind, and as a necessity of 
its condition it had to be kept somewhere near the 
right path by a succession of painful prods and pokes 
with the sharp goad of penalty. But when we began 


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to see clearer, as now the more quickened and sensi¬ 
tive of our race does begin to see, we need no rod, no 
more than you need a man with a club to prevail on 
you to go to a feast. 

Affirm: 

“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” 

“1 am filled with all the fulness of God.” 

“I and the Father are one.” 

Affirm each three times with alternating em¬ 
phasis on the words. 


THE DOCTOR WITHIN 


F AITH is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped 
for. If yon keep in your mind an image, 
or imagination, of yourself in perfect health, 
and full of strength and activity, you 
keep the forces working to make you so. You are 
constructing out of the unseen substance of thought a 
spiritual self (the healthy self hoped for) ; and this 
spiritual self will in time rule the material body, and 
make it like unto itself. If your stomach is weak, 
refuse in imagination to see it a weak stomach; see it 
only a strong stomach. If your lungs are weak, see 
in your mind’s eye your lungs as strong. If your 
body is weak and sluggish, see yourself in imagination 
as you were when a boy or girl, when your limbs were 
full of activity, and you took delight in scrambling 
over fences and climbing trees. You are then putting 
out the “substance” of the thing or condition of body 
“hoped for.” As you continue to see yourself thus, 
the gradual change in your physical condition for 
the better will increase your faith that this law is a 
truth. Keep to this thought of yourself as strong, 
active, and vigorous, week after week, month after 
month, year after year, and you fix more firmly in 
mind yourself as free from all disease. It will be a 
confirmed habit, or, as we say, “second nature,” for 
you so to imagine yourself. 

What you think or hold most in mind or imagi¬ 
nation, that you have most faith in. If you imagine 


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a bugbear, much of the time you will make a reality 
of such imagining. The “confirmed invalid” sees 
himself in his “mind’s eye” only as sick. He puts 
out, or imagines, the wrong image, or imagination. 
He is unconsciously working the same law. The in¬ 
valid who always sees himself as sick, is in reality 
constructing a sick body. You can make a weak 
stomach for yourself by always in imagination seeing 
your stomach as weak. The great trouble and error 
of today is, that, so soon as any organ is a little over¬ 
taxed or strained, its possessor is apt to think of it 
only as weakened and diseased, and in thought dwells 
only on such weakness; in this, unfortunately, he is too 
often assisted by others. As aU thought put out is sub¬ 
stance, the result is, there is by such means made for 
him, first, spiritually, a stomach, or lungs, or kidneys, 
or other organ, more imperfect; and this imperfection 
is embodied and expressed in the material lungs, 
stomach, kidneys, or other organ. 

It cannot be told too often, that all material things 
are the outgrowth or product of spiritual or unseen 
forces. Whatever you think of is made at once in un¬ 
seen substance. So soon as made, it commences at 
once to attract its like order of substance to itself; so, 
no matter how weak you are, when in mind you see 
your body active, strong, and vigorous, you have 
really made the spiritual body so. That spiritual body 
is drawing, then, the elements of health and strength 
to itself. Always in mind see yourself well when your 
body is sick. This is a simple process, but it involves 
a wonderful and wonder-working law. When in mind 
you see yourself diseased, though your body may be 
so, you are working this law the wrong way. 

The imagining of a fresh, sound, vigorous body, 
is an actual substance, though unseen, a fresh, sound, 
healthy, and vigorous body. It is a spiritual reality. 
The material body must grow to be like the spiritual 
reality. If your body is weak, do not see it in your 


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mind’s eye as weak. See yourself full of life and 
playful vigor. Don’t see yourself as an invalid 
propped up in a chair, or confined to the house, 
though for the time being your body is in such con¬ 
ditions. You are healing yourself when you see your¬ 
self running foot races. You are keeping yourself an 
invalid when you see yourself ever as one. Don’t ex¬ 
pect or fear sickness or pain for tomorrow, no matter 
what sickness or pain you have today. Expect noth¬ 
ing but health and strength. In other words, let 
health, strength and vigor be your daydream. The 
desirable condition of mind is better expressed by the 
word “dream” than by the terms “hoping” or “ex¬ 
pecting.” 

“Dreamers” do far more than the world realizes. 
The “daydream” of a person who may sit for an 
hour almost unconscious of what is going on directly 
around him, is a force working out results in the un¬ 
seen and mighty kingdom of thought, concerning 
which we know so little. Only at present, he or she 
whose thought is so disengaged from the body as to 
make them for the time quite unconscious of its ex¬ 
istence, having no knowledge of the power they are 
using, no belief that it is doing something, have conse¬ 
quently no faith in it; and without faith, most of the 
result must be lost to them. 

If you know nothing of gold-mining, or of the 
formations in which gold is found, or the methods for 
extracting it from the soil, you may dig in rich gold- 
bearing earth for months, and cart it off to fill in 
sunken lots. With no knowledge of the treasure in 
your soil, you have no faith in it. We are, as regards 
our mental or spiritual powers, in an analogous con¬ 
dition. Yet every imagining is an unseen reality; and 
the longer and more firmly it is held to, the more of a 
reality does it make itself in things which can be seen, 
felt, and touched by the physical senses. Dream,, 
then, so much as you can by day of health and vigor. 


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The more you so dream of it by day, the more likely 
is your thought to enter the same vigorous domain at 
night, and so recuperate you all the quicker. But if 
you dream by day of sickness or weakness, your 
thought at. night will be the more apt to connect itself 
with the current of sick, weak, diseased thought, and 
you are, on waking, the worse for it. Ignorantly you 
may store gunpowder in your cellar, thinking it some 
harmless material. A spark may then destroy your 
house and your body. In an analogous manner man¬ 
kind are now constantly bringing pain and evil on 
themselves through an unwise or ignorant use of 
their mental forces. As we most think, imagine, or 
dream, can we store up gold or gunpowder. A day¬ 
dream, or reverie, is an outflow of force working re¬ 
sults. The more abstracted the reverie, the greater is 
the force working separate and apart from the in¬ 
strument, the body. When for a time you can forget, 
or lose consciousness of, your physical self and im¬ 
mediate surroundings, you are working your spiritual 
or thought power possibly a hundred or a thousand 
miles away. All occult power, so called, all the mir¬ 
acle power of biblical record, was wrought by this 
method. If thought can be concentrated in sufficient 
volume on an image in mind, it can produce instantly 
that image in visible substance. This is the only 
secret of magic. Magic infers the instantaneous pro¬ 
duction of the visible by such concentration. 

The power of Christ*s thought concentrated on an 
imagining, or mental picture, could produce that im¬ 
agining in visible substance, as he did the loaves and 
fishes. All minds have these powers and possibilities 
in embryo. 

Faith is indeed as the “grain of mustard seed” 
to which, as to growth, it is compared in the New Tes¬ 
tament. But it can grow for evil as well as good, and, 
if for evil, may become a tree in which every foul bird 
of evil omen will come and build its nest. Your evil 


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or gloomy imagining is faith in that evil. Your fear 
of a disease is faith in the perpetuity and increase of 
such disease. You have a slight derangement of 
stomach or kidney or other organ. So, having it for 
one day or a few days., you begin to expect it. You 
think of it only as an unhealthy organ. You never in 
mind see it as a sound organ. You may be then told 
it is in a dangerous condition. You have a name pos¬ 
sibly given to the ailment which is suggestive of 
great suffering, debility, and ultimate death. All 
this is help to faith in evil. The force of other minds 
may be added to yours which increases that faith. 
Friends and relatives may be anxious on your account, 
and fearful, and continually reminding you how care¬ 
ful you should be. Every thing tends to make you 
see yourself sick, weak, and enfeebled. You have not 
in your own mind an imagining of the part affected 
as sound or healthy. None send you their thought, or 
imagining, as vigorous and healthy. The spiritual 
thought-constructions sent you are all in the opposite 
direction. The spiritual force sent you is really all 
for evil. If your friend says he “hopes you may get 
well,” he says it with an accent and expression which 
says he fears you may not. And so your faith in an 
evil is constantly increased. You always get the 
“substance” of the thing feared or expected as well 
as hoped for. In this case you get the substance of 
evil. You get more disease, more weakness by the same 
law, or force, which can, otherwise directed, bring you 
health. You are taught to have more faith, or belief, 
in sickness than in health. “According to the faith,” 
says the biblical record, “shall it be given thee;” and 
accordingly you have given you sickness, because you 
have most faith in sickness. 

Nature never really grows old as we understand 
that term. She is ever casting off her worn-out phys¬ 
ical envelopes, or forms of expression. We say the 


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tree decays. But do we not see the new tree spring¬ 
ing from the rotten stump of the old one? That is 
the same tree. In other words, it is the spirit, or 
force, of the tree we called old, materializing a new 
form of expression. That process has been going on 
through countless ages. That species of tree was far 
coarser than now in some far-off past. It has, through 
its successive regrowths, been growing finer and finer, 
and is to grow finer still. 

In all animal and other organized life, we find 
periods of repair and recuperation preparatory to a 
certain newness of life, and renewal of organization, 
as when the crab or lobster casts its shell, the snake 
its skin, the bird in its moulting season casting its old 
plumage, the animal shedding its fur. In all these 
organizations other changes go on, which we do not 
see. During these periods, the bird, animal, and fish 
are weak and inactive. Nature demands rest during 
this reconstruction. Such reconstruction is going on 
internally in the organization as well as without. 

All natural law, as seen in the lower forms of or¬ 
ganization, extends to the higher. This same law ex¬ 
tends to mankind. There come temporary periods in 
every person’s life, when all the activities, forces, or¬ 
gans, and functions are more sluggish. We are then 
undergoing our moulting process. Nature is laying 
us up for repairs. If we obeyed her demands, we 
should come forth in a few weeks or months with a 
renewed life and a renewed body. All that Nature 
asks of us, is that we give mind and body the rest 
they call for while in the repair shop. 

We speak of people of “middle age” as having 
reached their greatest amount of power and activity. 
After this period, “it is inferred as the law of Na¬ 
ture,” that we decline gradually into “the sere and 
yellow leaf ” This faith in “old age” and weakness, 
by the same spiritual law makes old age and weakness. 


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The “turn” at middle age, or a little after, means 
that the physical body you have been using is giving 
birth to a new one; in other words, the old is being re¬ 
formed, and giving place to the new. During such 
process of re-formation, a great deal of rest is re¬ 
quired. Your real, invisible, spiritual self is busy at 
work in the process of reconstruction. You should be 
no more overtaxed at this period than you were when 
an infant, or during childhood. 

We do not grant this rest. We force the ex¬ 
hausted organization to work when it is unfit for 
work. We mistake our season for moulting, and con¬ 
sequent temporary weakness, for some form of disease. 
We then fix in our minds, through faith in evil, the 
idea of disease; so we construct a disease for ourselves. 
While Nature is trying to give us a new birth, re¬ 
juvenate us, and make us stronger, we defeat her pur¬ 
pose, and make ourselves weaker. 

In the vast majority of cases, people cannot give 
themselves the rest Nature calls for. They must work 
on and on, from day to day, from year to year, to 
“make a living.” That makes no difference as to 
the result. Nature’s laws have no regard for man’s 
systems. So fagged-out and ignorantly disobedient 
humanity fags on, and thousands “make a living,” 
and toil and suffer and wear out, and die in misery 
on respectable beds of sickness. 

In cases habit is so strong that people cannot 
stop their work, or peculiar line of activity. They 
have no idea or capacity for resting spirit or body. 
They are miserable unless at work, and yet through 
growing weakness unhappy while at work,—like so 
many “housewives,” always complaining of being 
worked to death, yet unhappy if not at work. 

Could these people once have mind and body 
brought into a condition approaching that of real 
rest, they would possibly be alarmed, and fear their 
powers were failing. They might for a time become 


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sluggish, inert, and relatively inactive. That would 
be only because the strain being off mind and body, 
the spiritual power is using its force to recuperate 
and build anew. But you cannot work force in the 
outer, or physical, system, and the interior, or spirit¬ 
ual, system, at the same time. While one is at work, 
the other must stop. 

Nature’s great source of recuperation is rest. 
The land lying “fallow” gathers new force for grow¬ 
ing grain. The mother whose mind and body are least 
taxed during gestation, gives birth to the healthiest 
child. The broken bone requires rest while being 
knit together. 

By rest we mean rest of mind as well as body. 
Mental rest is as necessary as physical rest. Thou¬ 
sands of our race have no conception of mental rest, 
or a mind at ease. With them, worry, fret, uneasi¬ 
ness, and anxiety about something is a fixed habit. 
Rich or poor, it makes little difference. All this leads 
to exhaustion, decay, and disease. All this comes be¬ 
cause men and women cannot as yet believe that they, 
as parts of God, or the Infinite Spirit, have spiritual 
power, which, if cultivated and trusted to, will supply 
all their needs, grant them perfect health, and give 
them delights they do not now dream of. Man is to 
sec the day when he shall know that when he says, 
“I will do thus or so,” and persist in that attitude of 
mind, that the thing he wills is being done,—that un¬ 
seen forces are accomplishing the undertaking while 
his body sleeps, or, while awake, he is recreating him¬ 
self. 

What we now call “death,” is only the falling 
away from the spirit of the old body, before it has 
the power to put on the new one. Through ignorance 
and violation of spiritual law, our race has not yet 
given the spirit this opportunity. You cannot die. It 
is only your body that dies. You had a body in an 
existence previous to this. That died as others died 


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before it. Your real life is the life of your mind, or 
spirit. You are not always to suffer the death of the 
body as in the past. A period is to come when your 
spirit will have so far matured its powers, that it can 
clothe itself gradually with a new physical body as the 
old wears away. Paul inferred this possibility when 
he said, “The last great enemy which shall be de¬ 
stroyed is death.” 

When this law is known and followed, there will 
be results which would now be called miracles. Spirits 
(by which name we term all using, and in possession 
of, physical bodies) will have bodies for use on this 
stratum of life so long as they desire to use them; and 
such bodies being more perfect and symmetrical, will, 
as more perfect instruments, be better adapted to ex¬ 
press such spirits’ ever-growing powers. Your real 
self never loses any power. It is only because of the 
giving out of the machine, the body, that the spirit is 
unable to express that power, even as the most skillful 
carpenter can do little with a dull or broken saw. 

Visualize your body as perfect. Beginning at the 
base of your brain in your visualization, affirm, in 
turn: 

“My brain is clear , my mind perfect.” 

“My eyes, ears and physical senses are per¬ 
fect.” 

Passing down in your mind to a point between 

your shoulder blades, affirm: 

“My heart is a flame of fire. Alive.” 

“My lungs, breathe freely and fidly.” 

“My stomach receives and digests my food per¬ 
fectly.” 

Pass on down to the small of the back and affirm: 

“My liver is sound and well.” 

“My kidneys are perfect.” 

“My bowels operate effectually.” 


126 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


Pass on down to the end of the spine and affirm: 
“I am health.” 

Affirm each three times with alternating emphasis 
on the words. Take one hour each day and note the 
results. 


VI. 

THE LAW OF SUCCESS. 

S UCCESS in any business or undertaking comes 
through the working of a law. It never comes 
by chance: in the operations of nature’s laws, 
there is no such thing as chance or accident. 
The so-called accidental tumbling of the stone from 
the mountain-side is the result of forces which have 
been acting in that stone through countless ages. 

You and your fortunes are no more the things of 
chance than is the tree from its earliest growth. You 
are the product of the elements, and that product 
through the working of a law. You can, as you find 
out the law, make of yourself whatever you please. 

Your thought, or spirit, and not your body, is 
your real self. 

Your thought is an invisible substance, as real as 
air, water, or metal. It acts apart from your body; 
it goes from you to others, far and near; it acts on 
them, moves and influences them. It does this 
whether your body is sleeping or waking. 

This is your real power. As you learn how this 
power really acts; as you learn how to hold, use, and 
control it,—you will do more profitable business, and 
accomplish more in an hour than now you may do in 
a week. You will continually increase this power by 
exercise. This, and only this, was the basis of the 
miracles, the magic or occult power of ancient times. 

Your prevailing mood, or frame of mind, has 
more to do than anything else with your success or 


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failure in any undertaking. Your mind is that a- 
mount of thought-substance which has come together 
during countless ages, and after using many physical 
bodies. The mind is a magnet. It has the power, 
first of attracting thought, and next of sending that 
thought out again. You do not, of yourself, make 
your thought; you only receive and feel it as it comes 
to you. 

What kind of thought you most charge that mag¬ 
net (your mind) with, or set it open to receive, it will 
attract most of that kind to you. If, then, you think, 
or keep most in mind, the mere thought of determin¬ 
ation, hope, cheerfulness, strength, force, power, jus¬ 
tice, gentleness, order, and precision, you will attract 
and receive more and more of such thought-elements. 

These are among the elements of success. These 
qualities are of thought-element as real things as any 
we see or feel. The more you set the magnet in this 
direction, the stronger it grows to attract these ele¬ 
ments. 

Whatever of thought you think or receive, you 
send from you again, an invisible substance to act on 
others. 

Your own thought is now in the air, acting on 
and attracting to you of its kind the thought of others, 
whose bodies you may never have seen. The people 
you are in the future to meet, who may help or dam¬ 
age your fortunes, are those whose thought in like 
manner sent far from their bodies has already met 
and mingled with your own. That attraction tends to 
bring you together in the body. It will certainly 
bring you together in some form of existence. 

When determined thought meets determined 
thought, and united on a similar purpose, a double 
power for success comes of such union, be the bodies 
used by such thought, mind, or spirit, in the same 
house or a thousand miles apart. But if you are 
thinking most of the time discouragement or anger, or 


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any form of ill-temper, yon are sending hundreds and 
thousands of miles away from your body this thought- 
element of discouragement, hopelessness, or anger, 
literally a part of your unseen self. It attracts, meets 
and mingles with the same thought-element similarly 
sent out by others (parts of such people). So it at¬ 
tracts you to them, your partners in misery. You 
hurt each other’s health and fortune. 

A thought attracts thought of like kind. Keep 
any thought fixed in your mind, say the thought of 
strength or health, and you attract to you more and 
more of the thought-element of strength and health. 
Keep in mind the idea of force, “go-ahead,” push, 
and you attract to you in element that which gives 
you force, push and go-ahead. 

So long as you are in a confident, determined, 
serene frame of mind, having some special aim in view 
BASED ON RIGHT AND JUSTICE, so long are you 
moving in this way the strongest silent power of your 
thought in attracting to you the persons you need to 
co-operate with. If your aim is not based on right 
and justice, you will still move this silent power of 
your mind, but it will not effect results so beneficial to 
you as your thought based on your highest idea of 
right. 

If you wish to gain through deceit and craft, you 
can do so. You will attract, by the same law and 
method, deceitful and dishonest thought in advance of 
its body. You will then work with the dishonest in 
the body. Dishonest mind herds together through a 
natural law. The dishonest are certain to injure each 
other at last in some way. 

A thought, be it good or bad, is a thing or con¬ 
struction of unseen element as real as a tree, a flower, 
a clock. It is already made before you think or re¬ 
ceive it, as your mind through its mood, frame, or 
attitude attracts it. As you think it, you put it out 
again to act, move, or influence others. But your 


130 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


thought spoken or whispered in the privacy of your 
room is put out with more force so to act on others 
than if you merely “think it.” And if two or more 
persons talk together without wrangle or disagree¬ 
ment on a common purpose in any business, they send 
out a proportionately greater volume of force to work 
on other minds relative to such business. If your 
company so putting out thought-element or force do 
not agree, if they are angry and wrangle with each 
other, the force so sent from them is injurious to that 
business. If they talk peacefully, and will set aside 
individual preferences or prejudices in order to work 
out the common purpose in view, the thought or force 
they generate is constructive, and acts favorably on 
other minds far and near to advance that business. 

So whenever you think, you are affecting your 
fortunes for good or ill; and whenever you talk to 
others, you are making a force still greater to make 
or lose for you health, friends, and money. Every 
thought of yours, silent or spoken, has a literal value. 

If you receive (that is, think) the tho.ught that 
you cannot succeed in any undertaking, that thought 
also goes out, meets and attracts other discouraged, 
despondent “I can’t” thoughts, brings you nearer and 
nearer the hopeless, fretting people’s bodies it is in 
advance of, injures your health and all pushing busi¬ 
ness ability, and brings you at last in personal con¬ 
tact with people who only help to ruin each other. 

Y r ou are working then your thought-power for 
non-success. You can use this power to bring you 
good or ill results, as you can use the locomotive to 
carry your body on a journey, or to crush your body 
by throwing yourself before it. 

Whatever plan or scheme of business you fix 
your mind persistently upon in the determination to 
succeed, it commences then as a thought-construction 
of unseen element to draw aiding forces to you. By 
“aiding forces” is meant first, ever growing fertility 


PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 1 31 


of mind to breed new plans for pushing your business; 
secondly, drawing to you the best people to aid you in 
your plans. 

Do not waste your power in looking for such aid¬ 
ing forces with your body. Let silent, persistent re¬ 
solve in mind do the work. It will do it if you per¬ 
severe holding to this frame of mind. It is no new 
power, though possibly new to most of us. It is con¬ 
stantly, though unconsciously, exercised for good or 
ill all about us. Because your body is not the only 
power you have to work with. Your body is only the 
instrument used by your mind, or spirit. Your mind, 
your invisible self, uses your body in, say, cutting 
down a tree, or other work of hand, exactly as your 
body uses the axe. But when such force (thought) is 
not using the body, it is at work with greater power 
elsewhere. 

To think persistent resolve, to think persistent 
push in your one aim and purpose,—to simply think 
it, and do nothing else,—will create for you a power 
as certain to move and effect results as the jackscrews 
placed under the heaviest building will move it up¬ 
ward. The power you so create of your mind and of 
unseen forces will work while you sleep. It will bring 
to you new devices, plans and methods for moving 
your business forward. And as you get these plans, 
they will move your body to act. You cannot sit still 
when an idea that means business comes to you; such 
idea is for you, power. But you can tire your body to 
such an extent that you will have no power to re¬ 
ceive an idea when it does come. All successful busi¬ 
ness is based on a continual inflowing of new ideas, 
plans, devices, schemes. 

Your spirit, or thought, acts and works on others 
while your body sleeps. It may do this with those 
whose bodies are also asleep. If you are angry or dis¬ 
couraged on going to sleep, your invisible self on 
leaving its body will probably be attracted to some 


132 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


other angry or discouraged nature. The better mood 
you are in on quitting your body at night, and enter¬ 
ing on your other existence, the better the thought or 
person you will meet in that existence to further your 
purpose. If you have no purpose, you will then prob¬ 
ably meet with another purposeless nature. To have 
no special purpose in life, to simply drift, is to have 
nothing on which to focus or concentrate your 
thought-power. If it is not so concentrated, but 
scattered, fastening on one thing today, and another 
tomorrow, you will be restless, moping, and unhappy 
in mind. If unhappy in mind, you can never be 
healthy in body. 

Spirit, or thought, is always active, be the body 
asleep or awake. When the body is unconscious in 
sleep, your mind then enters on its other phase of 
life and activity. You have only exchanged one form 
of existence for another. When you awake, you do 
literally “take the body up” to use for purposes on 
the earth-stratum of life. 

Your thought acts on others, for or against you, 
far and near, while you are awake. But it acts more 
strongly on those to whom it is attracted when your 
body sleeps. It is then less distracted by the hopes, 
fears, prejudices, customs, and surroundings of its 
body-life. It is better, then, if you have any purpose 
in view, not to fix your thought too strongly when 
awake on such persons as you may think may co-op¬ 
erate with you, because your spirit, when out of its 
body, has a much wider range of acquaintance and 
action than when using its body. You may concen¬ 
trate its force overmuch, while it holds the body, on 
some person less likely to help you than the person or 
thought to which it is attracted while away from the 
body. In such case its force is placed in two directions 
when it should be in but one. Talking your business 
plan or project makes force for or against you. A 
clear plan or idea by which you can make more money 


PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 133 


represents force. A muddled plan represents a lesser 
and imperfect force. A new invention is a new force. 
Talking your business with those who are really 
friendly to you, actively friendly, and without a shade 
of envy or grudge against you, adds their thought or 
force to your own for making clearer plans, and work¬ 
ing on other minds, and enlisting them in some way 
in your favor. ‘Sympathy is force. Any person’s 
good will is a real, living, active substance, flowing 
always to you as that person thinks of you. It has a 
commercial value in dollars and cents. Ill will is also 
an element sent from the person who thinks it, and 
works against you though that person never speaks 
or acts with the body against you. This you can only 
successfully oppose by putting out against it the 
thought-element of friendliness. The thought of good 
to others is the stronger unseen element, and can turn 
the bad (the weaker) aside. It prevents it from reach¬ 
ing or harming you. 

Through the working of that same law, it is dan¬ 
gerous to make enemies, no matter how good or just 
the cause. 

To talk your business at random, is not only to 
give your secrets to such as will tell them to others, 
but it is to send your secrets and plans in thought- 
element flying far and wide in the air. They then fall 
into other minds, and you may find your plan used by 
others before you. The air is literally full of sup¬ 
posed secrets. They herald themselves to thousands 
in the form of suspicion and impression. 

Every disorderly meeting, every family quarrel, 
every discordance between- man and man, sends into 
the air a wave of destructive and unpleasant sub¬ 
stance. It affects unpleasantly minds thousands of 
miles distant. The thought so coming from some cen¬ 
ter of turbulence forms a wave, or current. If you are 
by some trifle made angry, you then place your mind 
in the attitude of a magnet to attract and let in this 


134 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


hurtful thought-current. Your anger, peevishness or 
irritation, caused at first by a trifle, is constantly fed 
from these currents. You must, for relief, turn your 
mind toward some more agreeable order of thought. 
Practice in so doing will give you more power, and 
make it more and more easy to change the charac¬ 
ter of the thought-element coming to you. 

When interest, sympathy and good will meet to 
present pleasantly their opinions or thoughts on any 
special subject to each other, for an hour, there goes 
from that company a wave of thought-substance, 
which strikes other minds, and awakens or renews in¬ 
terest in that especial business, art, or cause, in pro¬ 
portion to the sensitiveness or capacity of such minds 
to receive thoughts. The new thought coming sudden¬ 
ly to you, comes because somewhere it is being talked 
out or agitated. The wave so caused acts in unseen 
element precisely like that made by throwing the stone 
in calm water. The waves so radiate from the talk- 
center; and they will continue to spread out in every 
direction, striking other minds, so long as the agi¬ 
tation of talk is kept up at that center. No thought 
is, in a sense, original. The same idea, or parts or 
shades of that idea, may float into a thousand minds 
within an hour, when once started, through a few 
people talking it. Talk with others in friendliness 
about an improvement in machinery, a new inven¬ 
tion, a new idea for man’s comfort, and through 
thought-substance so sent far and wide you awaken 
desire or interest for the thing talked of. The more 
people interested in a thing, the more will be attracted 
to you to aid you, or buy the thing produced. 

Regarding your plan, purpose and aim, all your 
discreet talk, your interest and persistent determina¬ 
tion, represent for you so much actual outlay of force 
expended in attracting the thing desired to you. If 
you expend such amount of force for, say, three 
months, and then get discouraged, and give it all up, 


PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 1*5 


you abandon so much of a structure you have built 
up having this attracting power. You may not see 
where that power is operating. But it is at work, 
bringing to you the people in sympathy with you, or 
those who want what you have to give. 

Quarrelling, angry argument, and grumbling put 
out the silent destructive force. Friendly discussion 
and peaceful presentation of individual opinion, put 
out the silent constructive force. If you set your mind 
persistently in the desire for having the best people 
to talk to, and so aid you, they will come to you 
through this power of thought-attraction. Exactly 
the order of mind will so come you most desire. If 
you are not particular as to principle or honesty, this 
law will attract those not particular as to honesty. 

There will always be a demand for a better ar¬ 
ticle, a better effort in any art, or a better service of 
any kind, than those before produced. When you are 
sure yours is the better effort, push it. Get it before 
people. Talent in art or invention is one thing. Talent 
for pushing that art or invention is quite another. 
You must, to be successful, have both. The world pays 
best those who push. Hundreds of inventors and art¬ 
ists fail because they do not cultivate the science of 
pushing themselves before the world. 

You can learn the science of pushing by your¬ 
self. You will acquire it by seeing yourself in mind 
or imagination as asserting yourself courageously, 
fairly, honestly, before others, and making yourself 
agreeable to all. The more you do this in imagination, 
the more will you feel like doing it in reality. What 
you do in thought is a reality. What you live most in 
thought, you make a reality. You will find, after a 
time of such mental exercise, that you have more 
nerve, more courage, more tact, more address, more 
desire to mingle with all sorts of people, to take hold 
of the world, and make it give you what rightfully be 
longs to you. 


136 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


Poverty comes largely of shrinking away from 
people, and fear of assuming responsibilities. 

See yourself always in imagination as diffident, 
bashful, shrinking, and by the same law you make 
yourself so. Reverse this process of silent mental 
treatment. See yourself courageous. You are al¬ 
ways growing up to your highest ideal of yourself, 
and you reconstruct yourself by this process of silent 
thought. You cannot succeed and make money if you 
remain in a corner. You cannot do business with the 
world entirely by letter or by proxy. You must to an 
extent show yourself to others. When your spirit car¬ 
ries your body before another person, it carries the 
instrument for enabling your spirit to put out its full¬ 
est volume of thought-power on that person. 

Thought being substance or force, you can pile- up 
in your mind volumes of that force for or against you. 
To think of nothing but difficulties and possible trou¬ 
bles in business, is to set your mind as the magnet to 
attract only difficulties, first in thought, next in sub¬ 
stance. This becomes with many a fixed habit hard to 
get rid of. 

You have nothing whatever to do with a difficulty 
but to set your mind as a magnet in the direction for 
receiving force, ideas, and plans for overcoming that 
difficulty. If you have trouble with any person, and 
are always thinking of his injustice toward you, in 
the mood of anger or complaint, you are in thought- 
element making over again and again the wrangle or 
battle. You can use up in growling, scolding, com¬ 
plaining and grumbling, be it thought out silently, or 
spoken to others, the same force or thought which 
would make a plan to get rid of the thing scolded 
or grumbled at. It is on precisely the same principle 
as the strength with which the mason builds his wall 
can be used in tearing it down, or in flinging about 
bricks at random. If you will give your body all the 
rest it needs, your mental force will work far and near 


PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 137 


more powerfully for you. Your plans will be deeper, 
and when carried out, more productive of results. If 
the body is always fagged out, much of the force of 
that spirit must be used up in keeping its hold on 
the body—in other words, keeping it alive. It mat¬ 
ters not whether you tire yourself out voluntarily, or 
are obliged to do so to get a living. The result is the 
same. 

If you want more time in which so to rest, desire 
and demand it persistently. An opportunity will then 
at length come to you by which you can earn enough 
for your present support without working the body 
at one employment so many hours daily. It will come 
by that mysterious law and attractive force which 
moves all things to all people according to their 
strongest desires and the persistency of such desire. 

You can, through this same power (persistent de¬ 
sire), bring to you an evil as quickly as a good. The 
thing you are now strongly desiring may turn out an 
evil. If you desire or demand wisdom to know what 
will do you the most lasting good, you will, by the 
same law, bring to you the capacity to see what is 
really the best for you. Desire persistently a “clear 
head and a clear head will come to you. When your 
opportunity comes, granting you four or five more 
hours daily of leisure, do not pile on yourself any ex¬ 
tra effort for the sake of the few dollars you may get 
by it. This opportunity may be your first step out in¬ 
to a newer life. Give yourself leisure. Don’t be afraid 
of enjoying yourself. Your mind will then breed plans 
for future success; and as such plans come to you, you 
will be inspired to act them out with your body. 

A steady situation and good wages for life in any 
calling is not the road to any permanent or growing 
success. You are then but a screw in the great busi¬ 
ness machine, and, when worn out, will be mercilessly 
replaced by the newer screw. If in skill you are in 


138 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


your business at the top, and as to wages near the bot¬ 
tom, it is because, while skilled in your trade, you are 
not so in getting your just reward for that skill. You 
must not be content to be managed by others who, tak¬ 
ing advantage of your skill, get your industry and 
article before the public, and, with that, three-fourths 
of the profits. You must use this your power of 
thought, to get it and yourself before the public. 

You must, to gain the greatest success, manage a 
business, or a department of a business, and be its sole 
governor without interference or hindrance from an¬ 
other. Responsibility alone can bring out your fulU 
est power and its attendant happiness. 

Otherwise you will, as a mere employee, be fet¬ 
tered by an employer’s demands, or by conditions 
made by others in which you will be obliged to work. 
You will see your best ideas imperfectly carried out, 
because you cannot fully control their carrying out 
yourself. 

Affirm: 

“1 am success.” 

“I am achievement.” 

“1 am power.” 

“I am myself.” 

“I am FREE. I cannot fail.” 

Affirm each three times with alternating emphasis 
on the words. 


Use any words in all affirmations that are posi¬ 
tive and constructive. It is not necessary to confine 
affirmation to the exact words given. The thought is 
the thing, for “Thoughts are things.” 



VII. 

TWENTY-FIVE RULES FOR DEMONSTRATING 
SUCCESS. 


S uccess rule number one. 

Realize that success is inherent; that abun¬ 
dance is in harmony with Universal Law, and 
that an effective use of your inner powers 
makes the highest success absolutely inevitable. 


SUCCESS RULE NUMBER TWO. 

Study earnestly the nature of your mind and the 
development of your latent powers. 

Remember there are vast dormant powers in your 
subconscious make-up that can be utilized by recog¬ 
nition and suggestion, and majestic resources in Sup¬ 
erconsciousness to be appropriated by realization. 


SUCCESS RULE NUMBER THREE. 

Devote one hour, at least, daily to the most effec¬ 
tive development. Concentrate, meditate and go into 
the silence daily. Real success consists in persistency 
and to a large extent in regularity and system. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER FOUR. 

To concentrate for prosperity, affirm for example: 
The power to be prosperous is within me, and I 
am daily becoming increasingly successful. 

I am a magnet to attract prosperity! I radiate 
the spirit of prosperity, opulence and abundance. 


140 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


SUCCESS RULE NUMBER FIVE. 

To make your concentration more effective, re¬ 
peat your affirmation very earnestly, alternately em¬ 
phasizing each important word in your affirmation, 
also alternate between holding your sentence in mind 
in positive affirmation, and relaxing to absorb its in¬ 
fluence. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER SIX. 

Each day practice the Silence by completely re¬ 
laxing mind and body, first voicing your deep heart¬ 
felt aspiration to be in conscious communion with the 
Infinite Spirit of Love and Wisdom and Power. Seek 
to be filled with spiritual consciousness. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER SEVEN. 

Prosperity attainment consists of AWAKENING 
your energies and talents to the highest degree, and 
then awakening others to recognition and apprecia¬ 
tion of them. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER EIGHT. 

As the subconscious mind possesses the marvelous 
power of perfect deductive reasoning and therefore 
of carrying premises or suggestions to their logical 
conclusions, give the desired suggestions before sleep, 
giving the subconscious power to perfect your plans 
and enterprises even in sleep. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER NINE. 

As the subconscious mind is the storehouse of 
memory, and has the capacity of perfect memory, and 
as the subconscious mind is subject to the sway of our 
convictions, cultivate perfect faith in your memory 
and in your recollection, and exercise and nourish 
your memory by daily committing some good verse or 
statement. 


PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 141 


SUCCESS RULE NUMBER TEN. 

Cultivate perfect and permanent health as a solid 
foundation for success, and so that your body will 
permit complete concentration on your work. In this 
way you will also have strength and energy to plan 
and perfect your enterprises. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER ELEVEN. 

As the subconscious mind is a wonderful imper¬ 
sonator, and its characterizations always tend to be¬ 
come habitual and eventually to crystallize, use your 
highest intelligence to assume the role of the success¬ 
ful optimist, and of the prosperous man and woman. 
Life is a stage; play your part magnificently; it will 
grow upon you and become second nature, or what is 
really self organized nature. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER TWELVE. 

To know the work you really want to do, and 
in which you can most easily excel and win the great¬ 
est amount of remuneration, ask the Subconscious 
Mind to instruct you. Ask for light and make your¬ 
self receptive to receive the wisdom to choose well. 
Consult your highest aspirations. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER THIRTEEN. 

Develop the greatest amount possible of heart in¬ 
terest in your work. Be engaged in a hearty competi¬ 
tion with yourself. Excel the self of yesterday. Work 
with keener zest. Infuse the creative spirit in your 
work. Express enthusiasm. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER FOURTEEN. 

Keep the open mind, and cultivate your percep¬ 
tion, so you may be a leader. Cultivate a faculty of 
seeing a more efficient way of operation and follow this 
by real application of the principle discerned. 


142 PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 


SUCCESS RULE NUMBER FIFTEEN. 

Cultivate a strong will in the following manner. 
Supplement your daily affirmations with daily activi¬ 
ties. Each day practice one previously appointed ac¬ 
tivity for your own growth and development, and one 
activity to help someone else. The point is that the ac¬ 
tivities should be planned in advance, and that each 
should be definitely carried out. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER SIXTEEN. 

Improve your personal appearance to the most 
perfect degree possible. Arrange your dress, your per¬ 
sonal habits and your surroundings to look prosper¬ 
ous. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 

Cultivate courage and self-confidence by realiz¬ 
ing the reality of your inner powers. Breathe deep; 
affirm poise and courage. The rythmical breathing 
plus the spiritual realization will tranquillize your vi¬ 
brations and quickly induce a state of calm confi¬ 
dence. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER EIGHTEEN. 

Believe with all your heart that we are children 
or expressions of the Supreme Power which is Infinite 
Wealth. Believe that this Power is both Wisdom and 
Love and will bring your own to you in complete and 
perfect abundance. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER NINETEEN. 

Realize that your life is in front of you. It is now 
time to commence your ideal work or art. Life is be¬ 
fore you. Maintain youth, elasticity, ambition and en¬ 
ergy. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER TWENTY. 

Think success, talk success, breathe success, live 
success. Radiate success thought, love and co-opera- 


PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY 143 


tion to others. Soon you will generate a mental at¬ 
mosphere of success which will permeate and sur¬ 
round you. Thus you will be winning, magnetic, irre¬ 
sistible. All forces will work for your good, and all 
people will love to advance you. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER TWENTY-ONE. 

Have a definite aim in life. Know exactly what 
you want so that your deeper subconscious forces may 
work constantly to bring your achievement nearer. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER TWENTY-TWO. 

Be calmly and harmoniously persistent and de¬ 
termined. Calm, poised positiveness is the ideal state 
for success. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER TWENTY-THREE. 

Choose success-inspiring associates. Read success- 
inspiring literature. Consider the lives of succesful 
people, and remember that the eternal principle of 
success is equally within you. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR. 

Determine to grow every day to be a more lov¬ 
able, wholesome and efficient personality. Make your 
expression clear, frank and strong; make your voice 
kindly, natural and yet forceful. Be gracious and 
effective. 

SUCCESS RULE NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE. 

Whatever habit you know would contribute to 
your welfare or heighten in any degree your success, 
resolutely cultivate it. Use the spirit of I CAN, I 
WILL. It is the victorious mental attitude. 


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